[WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

[Emily Monroe]

> The navboxes would be so much better if they didn't pollute "what  
> links here".

I personally like navboxes.

I usually use "what links here" to check if an article is orphaned or  
not. What do you use it for?

Emily
On Aug 4, 2009, at 6:26 AM, Carcharoth wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Magnus
> Manske<magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com 
>> > wrote:
>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling_Award
>
> PS. The one thing I'm very bad at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Linus_Pauling_Award
>
> ...is linking from the winners of an award back to the award page.
>
> I refuse to create bloated navboxes that pollute "what links here" to
> put on each award winner, but the old tension between navboxes, lists
> and categories is still there.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Benjamin_Franklin_Medal_laureates
>
> Someone made a half-hearted (more like 0.5% hearted) effort to start a
> category for that award. Some awards have categories, some have
> navboxes, some have lists. I favour lists, myself, but can understand
> some navboxes and a very limited number of categories (for the really
> major awards). The navboxes would be so much better if they didn't
> pollute "what links here".
>
> But what I really need is the time to pull out a standard description
> sentence and citation for each winner, and plonk it in their article.
> Plus be able to see at a glance which articles don't have the award
> mentioned or that fact cited. At the moment, has to be done by hand,
> but I'm sure there are some nifty shortcuts.
>
> For awards of 50 or so people, its not so bad. But when you have
> awards with hundreds of winners going back centuries, it becomes a bit
> of a chore. And then you have to start explaining *why* they won the
> award... (which it, after all, the whole point really).
>
> Carcharoth
>
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