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".
HTH
--
Rexx
On 2 August 2015 at 20:56, Michael Peel <email(a)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(a)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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