On 8 September 2011 10:58, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)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 ;-)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk