Wikipedia:Templates with red links
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Active Wiki Fixup Projects +/-
Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help.
Bad links - A new page highlighting mangled links in Oct. 29 dump. |
Most wanted articles - Help create the most popular "red links". Updated from Oct. 20 dump. |
Disambiguation pages with links - Updated from the 2005-10-20 database dump with lots of work. |
Commons:Untagged_images - Untagged images on the Commons. |
Most visited articles - Based on page views, to be made into featured articles. |
Shortpages - Possibly broken, possibly stubs, but definitely too short. Updated 9 Sept. |
Templates with red links - By special request. Updated as of the Sept 9 dump. |
Linkrot - Fix broken links to external websites. Updated from Sept. 9 dump. |
Punctuation - Fix missing punctuation. Round 2 for Sep '05! |
Blank pages - Updated from Sept. 9 dump. |
Elements of Style improvement project Improve diction and style. |
Duplicated sections - An experimental list of articles with possible duplicate sections. |
User categorisation - Help replace unwieldy, unsorted lists with a robust categorisation system. |
Dead-end pages - Just updated (20 Sep 2005); articles that need wikification and other help. |
Broken categories - For your inspection, a fresh list of malformed categories. |
Missing articles - Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think! |
Most wanted stubs - Help add to the shortest stubs with the most links. |
Transwiki log cleanup - Help resolve the list of articles that have been transwikied to Wikipedia's sister projects. Dictionary definitions, recipes, how-tos, etc. need to be checked for possible merging or deletion. |
Stub sorting - Sort stubs into topical categories so editors can locate and expand stubs on subjects they are interested in. Remove stub notices attached to non-stub articles. |
Image sleuthing - A convivial club investigating the origin and copyright and licence terms for unverified images. |
Main - Inactive - Mini |
This page lists templates with red links (which lead to non-existant internal pages). Parameterized links, links to images, category membership links, interwiki links, and Special: links are not checked.
Contents |
How can I help?
Visit each template and get a sense of what's going on. If the article referenced by a red link deserves to exist, you can start it and then mark it as a stub. If you think an existing article will fit the bill, you can change the link to point to it directly. It might be a good idea to create a redirect from the original target of the red link, so future linkers can benefit from your work. If you think no article with that title should ever, ever exist, you can remove the link. It's perfectly fine and indeed encouraged, to leave red links to useful potential articles, as a signal to other editors that the article needs to be created. (See also Wikipedia:Most wanted articles).
If you come across an entire template that you think should not exist, please review the applicable standards at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion, and, if appropriate, nominate that template for deletion.
In order to help people find this project, consider using an edit summary like the following: Template red link repair ([[Wikipedia:Templates with red links|You can help!]])
Updating
You can ask User:Beland to update, if necessary.
This list is as of the September 9, 2005, database dump.
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) -- BDAbramson talk 00:14, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
- Suppress listings of links containing "Mail:*" (indicates an external Mail link) BDAbramson talk 16:43, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
- Suppress listings of links containing "talk:", as a redlinked talk page does not indicate a missing article. BDAbramson T 00:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Origins
Requested by User:BDAbramson.
Listings
(These are split up because they are very long.)
- 755 of 996 (75.8%) left on /2005-09-09.1-2 - 1 to 2 redlinks per template
- 475 of 504 (94.2%) left on /2005-09-09.3-5 - 3 to 5 redlinks per template
- 414 of 431 (96.1%) left on /2005-09-09.6-10 - 6 to 10 redlinks per template
- 360 of 370 (97.3%) left on /2005-09-09.11-20 - 11 to 20 redlinks per template
- 295 of 300 (98.3%) left on /2005-09-09.21-plus - 21 or more redlinks per template (links to templates only)
- Special - /2005-09-09.VfD - records of old VfD discussions in template form - no need to repair.