[WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

[Charles Matthews]

Carcharoth wrote
> The annoying thing about some of these redlinks, is that when you go
> looking for other pages where they are linked from, you run into
> problems if they are linked from a template.
>   
Another thing which is rather more than annoying is that plenty of quite 
unreferenced information is now placed in WP using these big 
templates-as-surrogate-lists.

To be fair, many lists are somewhat unreferenced. But of course you can 
add references to lists, and annotate them generally. There is no way 
such templates are ever going to offer verification. I think this may be 
a future consideration, even leaving aside the current and (I think) 
regrettable trend to place templates for each office held in a biography 
(which will collapse under its own weight one day).

Charles