Bod Notbod wrote:
So you quite commonly see people attributing a musical genre to a band
that other people disagree with, and some anonymous users have a fine
old time changing 5 articles per minute to state their FAVOURITE genre
simply *must* apply to every band they like, regardless of the
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Only three of those 24 articles, in my opinion, have moved much beyond
being a single line article or a few lines at most, even though
impeccably referenced. You might say go and help expand those
articles (and I
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Only three of those 24 articles, in my opinion, have moved much beyond
being a single line article or a few lines at most, even though
2009/8/5 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@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:
2009/8/5 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
Doesn't just removing the links from the templates altogether (and
then putting them back) do the trick as well? I suppose that might
annoy some people...
You could do that, but this way guarantees that if you get sidetracked
half way through
Carcharoth wrote
The annoying thing about some of these redlinks, is that when you go
looking for other pages where they are linked from, you run into
problems if they are linked from a template.
Another thing which is rather more than annoying is that plenty of quite
unreferenced
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Charles
Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
To be fair, many lists are somewhat unreferenced. But of course you can
add references to lists, and annotate them generally. There is no way
such templates are ever going to offer verification.
Hmm. I
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Bod Notbodbodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
I notice that some people now are adding refs to 'genre' tags now, to
thwart the genre trolls. Not that that required any technical
fiddling, but I'm just saying in passing.
Genre tags? Genre trolls?
Carcharoth
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
I notice that some people now are adding refs to 'genre' tags now, to
thwart the genre trolls. Not that that required any technical
fiddling, but I'm just saying in passing.
Genre tags? Genre trolls?
I use the word
Carcharoth wrote:
snip
I seem to have let my keyboard run away with me there. Sorry! :-)
It is interesting, though, to speculate whether there is a mature
dynamic that is or should be taking over. There would be a few
different sides:
- (focus on metrics) Article count - average length
-
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling_Award
PS. The one thing I'm very bad at:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling_Award
PPS. Someone told me, months ago, how to set things up so that
disambiguation page links show up in a different colour to ordinary
links (plus redirects showing up
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling_Award
PPS. Someone told me, months ago, how to set things up so that
disambiguation page
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,
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote:
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?
To see what
High time we left these off the whatlinkshere page, if technically
feasible. It would be the first step towards presenting the page in a
usable fashion, such as alphabetically.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM,
Consider the case where the *only* links in what links here are due
to being in a navbox template. The article would appear to be linked
from many articles, but it would not be linked from anywhere (or very
few places) in *real* text in other articles.
Now do you see the problem I'm getting
2009/8/4 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
In other words, I like using what links here to find out when
something is mentioned in the article *text*, rather than when it is
merely mentioned in a navbox template. One of the problems though is
that links from an *infobox* are more
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Andrew Grayandrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
2009/8/4 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
In other words, I like using what links here to find out when
something is mentioned in the article *text*, rather than when it is
merely mentioned in a navbox
Carcharoth wrote:
Anyway, what I wanted to know was whether there are places on
Wikipedia where such approaches to lists and checking links is
documented? I do remember something about various lists of entries
from places like the DNB.
Ah here we are:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Charles
Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
Anyway, what I wanted to know was whether there are places on
Wikipedia where such approaches to lists and checking links is
documented? I do remember something about various lists of
Carcharoth wrote:
Where is the current activity on the DNB project? It's something I had
kept in mind and wouldn't mind getting involved with at some stage.
It's supposedly organised around [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing
encyclopedic articles/DNB]]. Being just a subproject of the missing
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Charles
Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
Where is the current activity on the DNB project? It's something I had
kept in mind and wouldn't mind getting involved with at some stage.
It's supposedly organised around
Carcharoth wrote:
Picking a page from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:DNBFooter
I can't quite see which of the lists need work, but I'll just pick any
one with out the ticks and stuff on them, and start work there. Any
way to mark one of the 63 pages when it is finished?
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
One of the annoying things is that sometimes you can have a grouping
of possible titles and possble redirects (e.g. A. Other, Any Other, A.
M. Other, Any Middle Other, Any Other (disambiguator), and so on), and
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Charles
Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
visible fashion. It's around 30,000 links to do, doesn't matter so much
where people plunge in (check page history to see if someone else is
active(.
Now that I have discovered [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia 1.0]]
Carcharoth wrote:
Edmund Arrowsmith
Eww: ...executed for taking order of priesthood beyond the seas. His
hand is preserved as a relic at Ashton, Newton-le- Willows.
1628: A sign of the times.
More surprising was a Catholic priest of the period that I worked on; he
managed to go on for
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
One of the annoying things is that sometimes you can have a grouping
of possible titles and possble redirects (e.g. A. Other, Any Other, A.
M.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
snip
1) For James Learmonth Gowans, there is a redlink for James L.
Gowan on this template:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wolf_Prize_in_Medicine
Now created as a redirect.
I recently created three lists of winners of scientific awards, partly
because it needed doing, partly to see how good our coverage is now
(and how many articles remain to be written in such fields) and partly
to take a more systematic approach to checking links.
This is a nice writeup. It would make a good addition to the lists
discussion page you link.
An essay on this that ties into other ways to convert reliable
datasources into pages via a list-creation step (sometimes resulting
in a list, sometimes resulting in a topic outline, and sometimes
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