Wikipedia talk:Templates with red links
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[edit] New Suggestion
I would like to help on this but the query is so old it doesn't seem like it would be any fun. I have been helping out on the Stub Sensor project that is a fairly recent query and they way he organized it makes it stay relevant longer.
[edit] Template:VfD's
I've noticed a large number of Template:VfD headings - I'm guessing that before my time, that's how VfD's were done. I'm removing all of them to a separate page, as they appear to be intentional redlinks (i.e., the deleted article itself). -- BD2412 talk 03:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
- Those need to be re-corrected to their appropriate moved VFD location. --AllyUnion (talk) 09:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] What to do with checked templates
Is there an agreed systen for noting templates that we have checked and found to be OK - ie. if you investigate a template and discover it is correct with all the red links. Otherwise it'll just keep cropping up and people will repeat the work. Kcordina 09:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
- Delete them from the list - if they'e fixed, they won't show up in the next dump. BD2412 T 05:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
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- I've been deleting the entry for templates which are fixed, and striking templates which contain valid redlinks (i.e. there is no appropriate article for the links to point at). SeventyThree(Talk) 19:46, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sections
I've been bold and split the subpages up into sections of ~100 entries each. It's now much easier to find and remove fixed entries, but the numbred lists have been split so it's a little harder to find out how far through we've got. Hope this doesn't cause too many problems - should be easy to undo if it turns out to be a bad idea. SeventyThree(Talk) 08:01, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- I think it was a fine thing to do - ease of use trumps numbering. BD2412 T 18:49, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Enacted (old) suggestions for improvement
- Suppress listings of "Template:VfD-*" -- Beland 08:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
- Suppress listings of links containing "W:*" (indicates an external link to another wikiproject) -- BD2412 talk 00:14, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
- Suppress listings of links containing "Mail:*" (indicates an external Mail link) BD2412 talk 16:43, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
- Suppress listings of links containing "talk:", as a redlinked talk page does not indicate a missing article. BD2412 T 00:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
- Separate templates with names including "Campaignbox" and "Olympic_Games" into their own categories - these are areas for specialists. BD2412 T 06:06, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
- Suppress listings of links containing "User:", as a redlinked user page does not indicate a missing article, and user templates should not be a primary concern. BD2412 T 15:21, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
