On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Charles
Matthews<charles.r.matthews(a)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_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.
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