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_art…
"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.
Charles