[Wikipedia-l] Disambiguation - Altering Entry Titles?

Michael R. Irwin mri_icboise at surfbest.net
Sun Sep 1 12:08:33 UTC 2002


Tesla Coil wrote:

> There's brief discussion in "Village Pump" questioning the usefulness
> of bypassing redirects, but on previous view of "Recent Changes" I've
> noticed several removals of redirects to which no pages point.  Aside
> from question of whether it's necessary and good in a given instance,
> how does it tend to come to administrative attention?   Is there some
> kinda automagic flag raised back there, just happenstance, or what?

There is a page that lists "orphans" to which no other page
points.   Some of us try to keep this list thinned down so
it is easier to spot useful articles to link to from areas of
personal interest.

There may be other mechanisms as well.

regards,
Mike Irwin



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