Talk:William Cochran

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A disambiguation page that offers one link that's not a redlink. --Wetman 6 July 2005 06:17 (UTC)

All the names come from redlks on other pages; i'm only invested in it if some of the 5 real articles and 4 to-do lists lk'g to the name continue to do so. In particular, William Cochran (statistician) is the new rd lk from an LoPbN entry dating from 22:55, 2003 June 12. I have begun a long process preparatory to putting rd-lk entries from LoPbN on "Requested Articles", and i would hope that will lead to many not judged worthy being deleted both there and from LoPbN (and of course others turning into blue lks). But IMO a possible destruction (VfD, redir) of this Dab that doesn't leave loose ends is also a fine route to deciding which existing rd lks should just be unlked, and i take no position for either fate.

BTW, it would appear that the blue-lk guy, whose article (as i now see) is Thad Cochran, "obviously" doesn't need dab. Probably he does: i fixed (or half-fixed, i see) his first & second Congrssional-term articles, which presumably were based on a source someone else may use to find him.

--Jerzy·t 2005 July 7 00:25 (UTC)

But addressing Wetman's remark more directly, my "vision" in starting the dab was

• Someone who knows something about one or more of the W. Cochrans, or is interested in their areas of endeavor, figures out at least which are the same person, and thereby shortens the list. (The lks being red, and still orphans, makes it easy to merge them when we know enuf, bcz there are no loose ends to clean up.)
• When it stops being likely that the number of red lks is more than the number of un-bio-ed WCs, the remaining ones go onto LoPbN, and the Dab gets bypassed in each of the couple of handfuls of existing WC lks.
• In that process, maybe a stub or two has gotten created: one existing red-lk from an article is a sparse basis for bio-stub, but if two or three of my red-lks turn out to be for the same WC, that's a healthy stub that almost writes itself w/o any research outside WP.
• So what if the red lks go onto WP? Well, about April 4-6, there were abt 254 red-lks on the 41 pages that cover Aa thru Az. In a few days around that period, i copied just the red ones onto User:Jerzy/Red Links from LoPbN: A, and it can be seen that 27 of the roughly 254 are now blue: this suggests a half-life of something like 6 months for redlink bios on LoPbN. (Obviously the statistician has been a case far out on the tail of the distribution; it may be bcz it's hard to write a biostub on someone when it's hard to tell which references to his name are really abt someone else, and cleaning up the dab will ease that.)

In short, i suggest that a dab full of red lks is no scandal unless they haven't been added to LoPbN, and these just need to get consolidated so they can be added.

--Jerzy·t 2005 July 7 02:47 (UTC)