[WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

[Andrew Gray]

2009/8/5 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:

> Another thing which is rather more than annoying is that plenty of quite
> unreferenced information is now placed in WP using these big
> templates-as-surrogate-lists.

To tie this into the BLP thread, and give an example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:911ct

People often end up being added here as "proponents and supporters",
complete with lengthy edit-warring and debate on the talkpage, despite
the fact that the template often isn't added even added to their own
article, nor is there any discussion of the topic there...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk