It's because Rich is using that page as a template to create the entries. I
assume it's easier for the script that scrapes the database to just supply
parameters to a template. The three crosses (or ticks) are for "confirmed",
"linked" and "used".
--
Rexx
On 2 August 2015 at 20:56, Michael Peel
email@mikepeel.net wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Your list seems to have some technical problems: most of the entries seem
> to have many red crosses next to them (for no apparent reason), and the
> rest seem to blindly link to
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough/ODNB_entry
> Can you fix those issues? If so, it sounds like a useful list, that I'd be
> happy to copy over to enwp if there are editors that would find it useful.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On 2 Aug 2015, at 14:23, Richard Farmbrough
richard@farmbrough.co.uk
> wrote:
>
> <sigh>
> I have a little list....
>
>
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough/ODNB_articles_on_women_...
> (needs splitting up because it's so large).
>
> Unfortunately I am prohibited from putting this on English Wikipedia.
>
> It has been intimated that were I to encourage anyone else to do so it
> would be equivalent to doing so myself.
>
> I shall have to have a word with The Powers That Be, I suppose.
>
> All the best.
>
> Richard.
>
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