On 8 September 2011 10:58, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
From what I see, the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages is just misleading: For instance, one of the most ranking missing articles, [[Alison Campbell]], has all 5000+ links leading not from other articles, but from article talk pages, where it is not explicitly present, which means someone put this red link into one of the highly used templates for project evaluations (I did not investigate which one). I actually doubt that the person is even notable, though there is a short stub in Dutch Wikipedia. There is no way that this is really one of the most wanted articles. Others I tried from the first page share the same problem.
It's in a project-specific to-do list - for a fairly minor project, as these things go, but even a smallish project on enwiki has a lot of articles!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Northern_Ireland_tasks
(If anyone's wondering, Alison Clarke is the former Miss Northern Ireland, engaged to marry a prominent sportsman, and thus presumably something of a minor local celebrity. I make no comment on notability.)
For future research on redlinks, it would definitely be worth distinguishing between "links in article text" and "links from projectspace / inline templates". Technically more difficult to figure out, of course, but that's why we call them researchers ;-)