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: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/DNB_lists_discussion > > "List maintenance, first pass. Add {{tick}}, {{dn}} and {{mnl}} > templates, respectively for correct bluelinks, bluelinks needing > disambiguation and bluelinks that are definitely wrong." [...] List > maintenance, second pass: redirecting redlinks. Go through creating > redirects and adding {{tick}} to new bluelinks." > > That comes closest, I think, to what I was describing above. > Kind of you to mention the DNB project, which works at the unglamorous end of the 'pedia. What you have cited was the result of a commonsensical cutting-back of a complete series of maintenance templates, alluded to in [[User:Charles Matthews/WikiProject DNBMerge]] (a non-current page). I decided at the time that a good flowchart of the various states of a list entry would be the thing to set up to clarify this area; but in fact life proved too short and the preparation of lists had to take priority or nothing would get done.
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