[WikiEN-l] Human dignity
Fred Bauder
fredbaud at ctelco.net
Tue Jul 18 02:39:49 UTC 2006
On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:09 PM, ScottL wrote:
>
> WARNING: topic drift
>
> Without claiming that we should or should not have such a entry in
> those articles, I have for a long time been interested in looking
> through the DB dump for redirects to pages that do not contain the
> term
> being redirected to them, or something close. Its the "or something
> close" and the fact that some times this is probably "ok" that
> makes it
> hard to just do this. In any event I have frequently come across very
> bad redirects, some of them POV some of them I think people did
> just to
> avoid having a red link. Is there any sort of redirect auditing being
> done? I can't say I know of a good way to go about it efficiently but
> its is worth thinking about.
>
> Dalf
Not on a regular basis, but as you find them, fix them. Nothing wrong
with a red link if there is no article on the subject.
Fred
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