[WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Charles
Matthews<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Carcharoth wrote:
>> Anyway, what I wanted to know was whether there are places on
>> Wikipedia where such approaches to lists and checking links is
>> documented? I do remember something about various lists of entries
>> from places like the DNB.
>>
>> Ah here we are:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/DNB_lists_discussion
>>
>> "List maintenance, first pass. Add {{tick}}, {{dn}} and {{mnl}}
>> templates, respectively for correct bluelinks, bluelinks needing
>> disambiguation and bluelinks that are definitely wrong." [...] List
>> maintenance, second pass: redirecting redlinks. Go through creating
>> redirects and adding {{tick}} to new bluelinks."
>>
>> That comes closest, I think, to what I was describing above.
>>
> Kind of you to mention the DNB project, which works at the unglamorous
> end of the 'pedia. What you have cited was the result of a
> commonsensical cutting-back of a complete series of maintenance
> templates, alluded to in [[User:Charles Matthews/WikiProject DNBMerge]]
> (a non-current page). I decided at the time that a good flowchart of the
> various states of a list entry would be the thing to set up to clarify
> this area; but in fact life proved too short and the preparation of
> lists had to take priority or nothing would get done.

Where is the current activity on the DNB project? It's something I had
kept in mind and wouldn't mind getting involved with at some stage.

Carcharoth