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