Wikipedia talk:Templates with red links

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1 Template:VfD's
2 What to do with checked templates
3 Sections
4 Enacted (old) suggestions for improvement
5 Suggestions moved from project page
6 New Suggestion
7 Railroads and Mayors

[edit] Template:VfD's

I've noticed a large number of Template:VfD headings - I'm guessing that before my time, that's how VfD's were done. I'm removing all of them to a separate page, as they appear to be intentional redlinks (i.e., the deleted article itself). -- BD2412 ^talk 03:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Those need to be re-corrected to their appropriate moved VFD location. --AllyUnion (talk) 09:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What to do with checked templates

Is there an agreed systen for noting templates that we have checked and found to be OK - ie. if you investigate a template and discover it is correct with all the red links. Otherwise it'll just keep cropping up and people will repeat the work. Kcordina 09:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Delete them from the list - if they're fixed, they won't show up in the next dump. BD2412 T 05:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

I've been deleting the entry for templates which are fixed, and striking templates which contain valid redlinks (i.e. there is no appropriate article for the links to point at). SeventyThree^(Talk) 19:46, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sections

I've been bold and split the subpages up into sections of ~100 entries each. It's now much easier to find and remove fixed entries, but the numbred lists have been split so it's a little harder to find out how far through we've got. Hope this doesn't cause too many problems - should be easy to undo if it turns out to be a bad idea. SeventyThree^(Talk) 08:01, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I think it was a fine thing to do - ease of use trumps numbering. BD2412 T 18:49, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Enacted (old) suggestions for improvement

Suppress listings of "Template:VfD-*" -- Beland 08:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
Suppress listings of links containing "W:*" (indicates an external link to another wikiproject)
Suppress listings of links containing "Mail:*" (indicates an external Mail link)
Suppress listings of links containing "talk:", as a redlinked talk page does not indicate a missing article.
Separate templates with names including "Campaignbox" and "Olympic_Games" into their own categories - these are areas for specialists.
- I've refined this somewhat - it should actually separate out all templates with "olympic" in the name, as there are many olympic templates that do not say "olympic games"; also separate out another category for templates with names containing "election".
Suppress listings of links containing "User:", as a redlinked user page does not indicate a missing article, and user templates should not be a primary concern. BD2412 T 15:21, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions moved from project page

Count multiple instances of the same redlink in a template only once. BD2412 T 00:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Suppress listings of WikiProject Opentasks and similar - these pages should have lots of redlinks on them. SeventyThree^(Talk) 09:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
User: redlinks are still coming up, e.g. Template:PhilosophyTasks/vote SeventyThree^(Talk) 09:31, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Something fails on (valid) foreign language links, listing them as invalid links ending in an ampersand (&) - this is probably becasue of HTML code for foreign letters in the links. Example: Template:Presidents_of_Romania -> Nicolae_Ceau& Traian_B&.
Source within <pre> tags isn't formatted, so <pre>[[thing1]]</pre> shouldn't be counted as a redlink. SeventyThree^(Talk) 02:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Suppress listing templates in the Number xxx series, e.g. {{Numbers (3 E2)}} and {{Numbers 190s}}. SeventyThree^(Talk) 14:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Some interwiki links are being counted, e.g. MeatBall:MeatballWiki and Google:searchterm on Template:H:Interwiki_linking. SeventyThree^(Talk) 17:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Some redlinks which are occuring twice appear not to have been used twice on the page during it's history, e.g. Template:London_Underground_rolling_stock -> London_Underground_N_Stock London_Underground_N_Stock. SeventyThree^(Talk) 03:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Suggestion

I would like to help on this but the query is so old it doesn't seem like it would be any fun. I have been helping out on the Stub Sensor project that is a fairly recent query and they way he organized it makes it stay relevant longer.