Wikipedia talk:Dead-end pages/Archive 2

message: There are a good number of schools on here.  I think most of them are already in the WikiProject School database.  If not, tag them  and they will get attention.  -zappa 17:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Schools

message: Many articles already contain internal links to other articles and they are no more deadend pages eg: Beard Papa.
Shouldn't these entries be removed?
tkark|wanna Talk 04:47, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
:In general no, articles should only be removed once they comply with the style guide and are basically acceptable articles. We list deadend pages not because they contain no links, but because containing no links is an important clue that an article is sub-standard. Especially important is that a significant number of deadends are copyright infractions that must be dealt with as soon as possible. Adding , a category, or a single link does not turn an unwikified mess into a good article. Removing such pages from the list makes it less likely they will receive the attention they need. - SimonP 04:51, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
::Well, I think it would be fine to remove articles that are no longer deadenders.  If they still have other problems, they should be tagged appropriately. (See Wikipedia:Cleanup resources.)  Part of the benefit of describing the specific problem than an article has is that some people are interested in fixing specific types of problems, and mixing in "general problem" articles makes problem-specific lists less useful in this regard. Besides which, I think people will remove articles from lists when they don't seem like they belong there, and of course when the list is updated from a new dump, "general problem" articles will not continue to be listed. -- Beland 00:53, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove "not applicable" entries. 

message: I gave this a shortcut, WP:DEP.  I figured "DEP" was the most logical abbreviation of Dead-End Pages.  Hope nobody minds.  The Literate Engineer 05:52, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shortcut 

message: Some of the articles on the deadend list are being marked by <S>striking out</S>.  What is this intended to signify?  If they are done we've been deleting the entry.  What is strikeout supposed to indicate? RJFJR 20:39, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Strikeouts are supposed to be for reference. However, deleting the affected articles in question is a much more efficient way to prune the list. --Siva1979Talk to me 20:50, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strikouts 

message: We need to focus more on the sections A, B, C. Work with those first to get their lists to a normal level , then we could work on the rest of the letters --Revolución (talk) 22:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Out of curiousity, why are A, B, C so much longer than the other sections in the first place? -- Avocado 15:37, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe it is because we have only been getting partial updates lately. For instance, I know at least one of the recent updates has been from special pages (see the "Deadend page needs an update" discussion above), which for some reason seem to only list the first 1000 pages and usually in something resembling alphabetical order. That's what I know, I'm sure someone here can elucidate more. Whitejay251 15:54, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Congratulations to everyone on the 'A' section.  It is almost empty now.  Looks like the 'B' and 'C' sections are still in real need of help.  James084 15:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Focus on some sections

message: Have just removed 20+ repeated items from the B and C lists. How did they get there in the first place? -- Picapica 13:05, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It could have been a glitch in the servers that caused this anomaly. --Siva1979Talk to me 20:51, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated entries 

message: A couple of things, first of all i think that the A, B, and C sections are so much larger at least partially because it is easier to work on dead end pages if you get the satisfaction of "i finished all the z's" etc.  also because the abc seem to get updated more.  I managed to work the b's and c's to just below 300 today, but I cant do it alone.  Next question is should wictionary cantidites be removed from the list if they have links in them?  Ah well happy editing! --Meawoppl 20:47, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some Questions 

message: Based on a conversation between myself and Jdcooper I think that further conversation about when to remove a page from this list needs to be opened up.  Jdcooper pointed out to me (rightfully so) that removing pages tagged for 'Move to Wiktionary' does not necessarily warrant the article being removed from this list.  His point being that if the article is not transwikid to Wiktionary before the next run of the Deadend pages report then the article will show up right back here.
My question is this, if the pages are marked 'Move to Wiktionary' and also given a 'Wikify' tag does this fix the problem enough to remove the page.  According to the instructions on this page if an article is tagged for AfD it should be tagged 'Wikify' as well to prevent it from re-appearing here.
For articles on AFD, you can tag them  (in addition to the AFD notice) and remove them from this list.  That way, if they survive deletion, they will still be tagged for fix-up.  (They will not show up here on the next run if someone adds a single wikilink, but this may not indicate the article is fully wikified.)  These pages should be de-listed because later updates to this page may overwrite annotations. 
I would just like to ensure that there is a consistent effort for either removing or not removing pages from this list.  This helps out those of us working on this list and eliminates duplication of effort.
Anyone have any thoughts, suggestions, criticisms?
James084 13:05, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is important to remove all pages that can be, otherwise it can become time consuming to actually find pages that need to be fixed (not at the moment I know, but when the list is older). So I think it is sensible to either tag wikitionary candidates as wikify and remove or even simply remove them and hope they are moved to the wiktionary. Even if they are not the worst that could happen is that a couple reappear on this list next time (and that's   if they aren't fixed before hand). p.s. thanks for the all the hard work you are doing on this James. Martin 13:42, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

text: James, having thought about it more I think that AfD and MtW are different cases. If an article is being moved to wiktionary, then it is a dicdef, and as such there isnt always much to be wikified, linked etc. AfD is an article, just one with questionable notability, so I think articles on AfD shouldnt be removed (unless it is clear that the article will be deleted, down to the editor's opinion how "clear" that deletion must be i suppose) since the article is still dead-end. AfD doesnt really have much to do with this department, IMO. I think I am still in favour of keeping everything on this list until it goes red or gets links, but I'm not going to argue with consensus :) Jdcooper 18:25, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

text: I just went through the first 10 (or so) articles on this list, and every one was linked, some were stubbed, some tagged as copyvio.  I think any short article that is stubbed and has relevent links activated, or has been copyvio-ed or otherwise identified as needing other work, should be removed from this list to avoid extra searching for eligible articles SailorfromNH 02:24, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I second (or third?) this idea. It seems some articles need help more than others and if we are only looking for dead-ends here, then those with proper links, formatting, etc. really aren't dead-ends and shouldn't be on the list. They may need other help, which is what the other cleanup categories are for. --Laura S 03:13, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Here are my 2c - very much in line with the previous comment. I think this list would be most useful as "a list of deadend articles that have not yet been assigned to another cleanup category" - that is, not yet tagged for one of the other cleanup categories. Or in other words - this is a list of deadend articles that have not yet been through first stage triage. That way we would save time of clicking on articles only to find that it has already been tagged for copyvio/proposed deletion/speedy deletion/whatever. If we adopted this interpretation then it would follow that a) (ideally) the script that generates this list would exclude exclude articles that have a tag in them and b) those of us working on deadend articles would remove them from this list as soon as we have tagged them. If a different consensus emerges then I'm happy to abide by it. At the moment we don't seem to have a clear consensus (correction welcome), so I will continue to remove any articles that I tag for copyvio/speedy/prod/wikify. Cje 10:01, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

text: A second comment, independent of my last one. If we are going to continue to tag articles proposed for AfD as wikify too, then it would be consistent to put the wikify tag on articles marked for ProD too. Personally I think this it would be better to put just the AfD or ProD tag on, and then make it practice to put wikify (if wtill required) onto any article that survives AfD or ProD. Cje 10:01, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The way i understand "dead-end" is that someone, upon surfing wikipedia to that article, would be unable to surf anywhere else, because there were no useful wikilinks to click on, thus making it a dead-end. As wikify and clean-up tags are just maintenance, they dont count (to me) as useful wikilinks (from a reader's POV) so i think we should at least try to add something else than just a cleanup or wikify tag. Maybe? If we can? The exception would be those bastards that you have to put a context tag on, i usually have no idea what im talking about, when its like computer-science types and those management structure articles that we have far too many of. Basically, remove the article from the list when you feel personally that you have done all you can reasonably be expected to do at triage. That's what I do anyway. Jdcooper 15:55, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Well we agree on the definition of a deadend! Also it sounds that we both have similar working practice on trying to do good first stage triage. So I'm more than happy to carry on as I am already doing. If a more formal consensus emerges then I'll abide by it. In the meantime I'll continue to shoot vanities on sight - well tag and remove from this list. I'm not an admin so I can't actually shoot them. I can usually make a good first guess on true computer science articles, but I draw the line at magmas, computer games, fan cruft and management! Cje 08:50, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How do you shoot vanities? Is there a Speedy tag for patent vanity? I know there was a discussion of it at some point, but i also know not all CSD criteria have their own tag, which is annoying, as i do not know the criteria by their code (the time i do will be when i start to worry about wikiholism!), because i hate patent vanity pages. I generally just tag them {empty} or {nonsense}, is that how? {vanity} never seems like enough of an action, just passing the buck to some horribly backlogged and inefficient department (not like DEP, natch). so how to shoot? Jdcooper 14:18, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I use "nn-bio" (Is this an alias of vanity?) and they seem to be shot pretty quickly by admins. Cje 11:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

text: PS I hate vanities too! In fact some of my quick clean out of the latest big list was to go through looking for common first names, start checking, and tag where appropriate. I try to be nice where it is a new editor and the content is half way reasonable (appropriate for a User pag). I have no patience with "Jaz is cooooo....ool!" type articles. Cje 11:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

text: It does sound like there's almost a concensus here! I also agree on the concept of dead-end. I've been removing articles that have appropriate (and enough) wikilinks and are therefore no longer dead-end. If they still need other work that might cause a lot of rewriting or outright deletion, such as copyvio attention, context, etc., I put on the appropriate tag and remove it from this list. This is for two reasons: 1, those tags will put the article on other cleanup lists, so it won't be abandoned from all help, and 2, it doesn't really make sense to add links if the articles will be changing drastically. Basically, what Jdcooper said - do what I can for links first, then formatting or anything else I can handle, then tag it appropriately if it still needs something and send it on its way. Apparently someone agrees with me because the A's have been reduced to pretty much nothing in just a couple days! --Laura S 00:19, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A quick look at the history suggests that its the contributors to this discussion who did almost all of the clean out of the As. Though in my case a good number of the articles had already been fixed by others. I just crossed them off this list. Now onto the Bs. Cje 11:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Yup I've been finding a lot that were already done, either linked or tagged as copyvio. There are a huge number that are copyvios, some more blatant than others, it's pretty unfortunate. Made some good progress on B last night! I'm afraid of S. --Laura S 13:51, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I would like a list for only dead end pages because what if I am not good at cleaning up arties but I can at least make a link to anything I don't know about in the article.  Could we have two sections?  One for Dead end and another for arties that are no longer dead end but need other work.  And as far as not keeping the annotations after the cache is updated, can’t you just have the cash add it to the list and then alphabetize the list so the duplicates are easy to spot.  What I really am concerned about is what do you do if you are only interested in adding links to the articles (Because I don’t quite know how to cleanup articles) and aren’t comfortable changing the text.  How do you mark that you finished that part of the job.  And why do you need to redo the cache while you still have existing articles that haven’t been helped. I would say help these articles and then after the list is empty redo the cache.  It would see weird if arties starting with "A" are better than articles starting with "W" (assuming some people like bottom up)--E-Bod 20:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How about only having the markings if it is AFD or copyvio?  That way you know which ones are tagged for copyvio and AFD, but if they survive, they are still on the list.   --PhiJ 16:32, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The script will bring them back around to us anyway if they are dead-ends. If they survive AfD or copyvio, hopefully they will do so with some improvements (when i used to work on AfD i used to try and triage articles as they came through). And plus, if they are sent to AfD or copyvio in the first place, to me that suggests that, even if they survive, they are not as heavy priority as articles that are clearly noteworthy just unwikified. Its the Article Improvement Drive priority principle. I think that adding the text here creates extra work to take up time that could be better spent cleaning-up poorly formatted articles, which is what we are all here to do really. Jdcooper 17:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consistent Procedures for Removing Pages 

message: Why not do something in-between removing them and leaving them on the list.  Why not add some text to the side of the link 
For instance next to it can say
* CopyVio
* Needs Cleanup.
* Wikify
* AFD
This way people know more about the link before they click on it, and yet those who want all the non perfect articles on the list can still have them here.--E-Bod 22:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would like a list for only dead end pages because what if I am not good at cleaning up arties but I can at least make a link to anything I don't know about in the article.  Could we have two sections?  One for Dead end and another for arties that are no longer dead end but need other work.  And as far as not keeping the annotations after the cache is updated, can’t you just have the cash add it to the list and then alphabetize the list so the duplicates are easy to spot.  What I really am concerned about is what do you do if you are only interested in adding links to the articles (Because I don’t quite know how to cleanup articles) and aren’t comfortable changing the text.  How do you mark that you finished that part of the job.  And why do you need to redo the cache while you still have existing articles that haven’t been helped. I would say help these articles and then after the list is empty redo the cache.  It would see weird if arties starting with "A" are better than articles starting with "W" (assuming some people like bottom up)--E-Bod 20:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How about only having the markings if it is AFD or copyvio?  That way you know which ones are tagged for copyvio and AFD, but if they survive, they are still on the list.   --PhiJ 16:32, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The script will bring them back around to us anyway if they are dead-ends. If they survive AfD or copyvio, hopefully they will do so with some improvements (when i used to work on AfD i used to try and triage articles as they came through). And plus, if they are sent to AfD or copyvio in the first place, to me that suggests that, even if they survive, they are not as heavy priority as articles that are clearly noteworthy just unwikified. Its the Article Improvement Drive priority principle. I think that adding the text here creates extra work to take up time that could be better spent cleaning-up poorly formatted articles, which is what we are all here to do really. Jdcooper 17:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal 

message: If an article is well-categorized but has no internal links in the text itself, is that considered a dead-end page?  --Allen 16:05, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is still considered a dead-end page (However, I may be inaccurate in my view on this). --Siva1979Talk to me 19:59, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there any specfic examples of such an article? --Folajimi 10:06, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I had something in mind when I asked the question, but that was a few months ago.  In retrospect, it no longer seems important. :-)  --Allen 23:46, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  categories but no prose links? 

message: I suggest not tagging articles nominated for deletion (articles for deletion (AfD), speedy deletion and proposed deletion (prod)) for cleanup, unless the article has a good chance of surviving. The cleanup categories are already swamped, particularly wikification and general cleanup. Some newbie editors may work on articles that end up getting deleted and the rest of us will get frustrated from clicking on pages to work on and repeatedly finding them nominated/proposed for deletion and perhaps removing the tags, unaware that they were intentionally placed after the proposed deletion. Less importantly, it inflates the numbers of articles that actually need cleanup. Since multiple tags are usually added to the article, especially cleanup, wikify and uncategorized, the problems are multiplied. Removing the tags has always been my practice, but I did not know that anyone would ever intentionally add them after the article is nominated/proposed for deletion and I will not fight with other editors by reverting. -- Kjkolb 11:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tagging articles nominated/proposed for deletion for cleanup 

message: look at Raphew Reed Jr. this diff makes me wonder if it's worth going through and copyediting. anyone ever wonder stuff like this? I wann help but if th orginal author or someone knowledgable never comes back, how do we know if any of this content is any good? does it matter if almost nothing else points to it? KzzRzzKnocker 02:46, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: sweet dude. glad to hear of confirmed existence and notability of that guy. thanks. good lookin out. yaa. /izl. 04:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm sure this is there's an uphill answer to this question but 

message: There seems to be some disagreement here as to when to remove Articles from the dead-end list. I'm very new here and went through and cleaned up some short articles for a start. I added links, fixed spelling, added italics and bold, marked them as stubs or move to Wiktionary, etc. Considering the definition on the dead-end page is "The pages contained on the list below are either not wikified (are plain text, not properly formatted, and so on), and/or they do not contain internal links to other articles." it seems that should be enough to remove them from the list. Is there more that needs to be done? I don't want to leave articles there that no longer need dead-end cleanup (as someone else suggested, if they need other help, such as fleshing out, they should be tagged as such). At the same time, I obviously don't want to remove anything that really does belong here. Is there any sort of consensus on when to delete articles from the list? --Laura S 03:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So long as you are adding the appropriate internal links, I think an article can be removed from this list, but it seems recently some people have simply been adding a stub or some other tag to the article, and that doesn't fix the dead-ends any... if you wanna add stubs, and other tags, or partially wikify it, that's cool... so long as the main body of text is embedded with blue links where neccesary... - Adolphus79 06:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I understand, as soon as you add the necessary/appropriate links, you can delete it from the list. --Brain 02:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting Articles 

message: I was recently asked to update this list again, but would it be preferred if I waited until the list was complete before updating again, or is it better to update more frequently? I personally would like to update more frequently as it purges all the wikified/deleted articles. Martin 16:39, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I see it's been updated - which is a Good Thing - but could you PLEASE put in a marker saying when it's been updated? It caught me mid-edit.... --Alvestrand 13:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating this list 

message: I've identified this project as a candidate for material to be analyzed by Wikipedia Integration methodology. Please feel welcome to offer suggestions and feedback. WP:ʃ Cwolfsheep 16:34, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Integration 

message: Please see User:Brad101/redundancy for things that have been on my mind lately. Use the talk page there for comments about changes etc. Thanks --Brad101 15:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project redundancy 

message: As many who work on this part of Wikipedia know, a lot of articles that get listed here are blatant copyright violations.  Usually those articles would be listed at WP:CP.  For those who aren't aware, a change was recently made to the db-copyvio template that removes the criteria that the article had to be less than 48 hours old.  Now, if you find a blatant copyvio you can mark it for speedy deletion regardless of how old the article is.  This should help clear this list much quicker.  --cholmes75 (chit chat) 05:26, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A note on copyvios 

message: I see that a recent lot was just cleared out. Congratulations! --WikiSlasher 08:30, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good work guys 

message: * Is it worth checking for external links only to generate a separate list of likely advertisements? - TB 10:09, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)
* If i made an php script that ran the code listed above, and auto formatted all this stuff would someone higher up install it to run nightly or so? --Meawoppl 19:41, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested improvements 

message: I have a new version made from the 12-30-06 data, just let me know when you guys want me to put it up. Salad Days 07:34, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Any time is fine with me. My current way of processing the list is to plug it into AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) and let AWB scan the pages for problems. When it catches one, I go over it more thoroughly for problems other than just being a dead-end page: verify, copyedit, wikify, etc. and tag it accordingly. I even do some actual editing sometimes! Are you going to post them to your sandbox pages again? --Pigmantalk • contribs 17:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I will be bold and update it now. I don't see much point in waiting, since the longer it takes, the more will simply pile up. Salad Days 18:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - diving right in - T reduced from 1091 to 975 just by deleting the redlinks; took no time at all. Now for the fun! --Alvestrand 20:15, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Updated the list

message: Hello. I just did a major revision to this article and it no longer is a dead-end page. I noticed that it was listed by checking the pages that linked to the article. I didn't know if there was anything else I could do to remove this article from your list, I'm not familiar with this project. Any advice for me would be welcomed. CRKingston 02:01, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just delete it from the list. Can't get much simpler than that.. --Alvestrand 02:53, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

text: The list is maintained by hand because by definition, the entries are not members of any category. Just remove if it's in good shape :) Salad Days 02:54, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great Dayton Flood 

message: The current method of generating the list produces pages that are too long (~170 kb) in some cases. It would be better if this could be broken up into much smaller chunks. This time I did some of this by hand, but it is a time consuming thing to do for a set of pages that is just going to be regenerated in a few days. ike9898 22:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The regeneration does not happen every few days: it happens every month or two, after a new database dump is made. It cannot be created on the fly. If you edit the sections by letter, rather than the entire page at once, they are much more manageable. Salad Days 22:36, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can we get a bot to automatically remove red links? - Penwhale | Blast the Penwhale 03:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You could try Wikipedia:Bot requests and see if anyone could easily add this functionality to an existing bot, or see if making one from scratch would be an easy task. It certainly would help reduce the tedium involved with maintaining this page. Salad Days 23:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Jayden54 has said he will create a bot to prune this of redlinks once a day... woohoo! So no moving or renaming the dead-end pages, guys. Salad Days 18:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pages too long 

message: I've just been working on this article (with help) and there is only one dead-end link remaining.  Can someone take a look at the article and critique?  Is there anything else that needs to be done?  Do the stubs have enough information?  For R. L. Anderson himself (the remaining link), I was thinking of creating a biographical stub.  What would you suggest?  After this one is done properly, I'd like to pitch in and help with other orphaned or dead-end articles. Thx!
LtlKty 23:17, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article looks fantastic! This project is not about the number of red links in an article; instead, it is a list of articles which contain no links whatsoever, at least, at the time it was last updated. Feel free to edit the section for the letter A and remove the reference, if you like. Salad Days 00:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thoughts on the red link, You could unlink it, you could check Anderson and see if the author is there by another name.  I would not suggest a Stub unless you have a bunch of info on the author is it would not pass WP:BIO and would likely get deleted.  Or you could just leave the red link there.  You did a fine job, looks good. Jeepday 00:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for taking a look.  This article was already removed from the dead links page, I suppose by one of the other editors.  I'll unlink the reference to Anderson because I haven't yet been able to find more about him than the articles he wrote.  I suppose this article was actually an orphaned page (no links to it) rather than a dead-end page (no links out of it).  Thanks for helping me understand the difference.  I plan to work on both types.  Thanks again! --LtlKtytalk | contribs 20:54, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked through the page histories, and the original dump of dead-end pages did not include Anderson's rule, and the article "Anderson's rule" was never a dead-end page (ie. all versions of it include wikilinks)... is it possible you came here by mistake somehow? Salad Days 21:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Anderson's rule is listed on an old W. Marsh list of orphaned pages - that is, pages that no page points to. So I guess it was an orphan at one point - but it isn't now. --Alvestrand 23:06, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I did come by mistake thinking that the article was a dead-end page when it was actually an orphaned page.  Since I'd also like working on dead-end pages, I think I'll stay. :)  --LtlKtytalk | contribs 04:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

text:  Welcome aboard, have fun and if you have questions ask.  Looks like you must have some experience as your history is much shorter then your Wikipedia mark up skills would imply. Jeepday 04:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the encouragement.  I really appreciate it.  --LtlKtytalk | contribs 05:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned article - [[Anderson%27s_rule|Anderson's Rule]] 

message: I have realized that I should avoid listing pages which contain particular templates the next time this is updated, for example the  template... does anyone have any suggestions as to what else to filter out? Perhaps articles already tagged ? Salad Days 00:40, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh please avoid the protected deleted pages, it is frustrating to remove them over and over again and it does make the list longer than it should be! As for the other tags, I suspect most of us work the same way as me - work on the articles we want to irrespective of any existing tagging and leave the rest! --Richhoncho 10:42, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried to do that, but apparently it didn't work. I will have to read the database scanner docs more thoroughly... Salad Days 16:26, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Templates to ignore

message: I notice from the header that we now have a bot eating all the redlinks for us - good!
I just wonder: does it know to eat the whole line (everthing after the # and before the next #), or do I have to worry about pieces of my "editor's notes" being left after the entry is gone? --Alvestrand 01:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I brought that subject up here: Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Keeping_WP:DEAD_free_of_redlinks, and it looks like the bot does gobble the entire line, notes and all! Salad Days 02:19, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot question 

message: Added internal links to this article and edited it a bit.  It still needs a lot of work - I've left it as a stub for now.  If you agree, I'd like to take it off the dead-end page list - and also the orphaned page list if it is there.--LtlKtytalk | contribs 05:13, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good! Whenever you have wikilinked a dead-ender, feel free to delete it from the list. Askari Mark (Talk) 05:32, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Point of difference]] 

message: Just a thought, Adding a prod tag when we are working the list is becoming a habit for all of us, and I think it's a good one.  I have also begun adding a date behind my prod tag on the list so if someone is coming behind me they can tell at glance if it has been over 6 or 7 days, if it is still blue and if the article might need another look. Jeepday 23:36, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed that an editor had started doing that and I also think it's a great idea.  It really saves time. I like the date idea and I'll start doing that as well. janejellyroll 23:37, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll get on board with that, too. I'm in the middle of using AWB to find the prods and mark them here. FWIW, I also put the prods on my watch list so I can get to them if they get de-prodded. Kathy A. 00:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Prod Thought

message: For no particular reason, I noticed that the counts of articles at the top of each letter were outdated by a month, so I updated them manually.  My general observations:
*Very short letters, such as Q and Y, were almost completely exhausted.  A was also substantially reduced.  This indicates a tendency in this WikiProject to knock off a whole letter, or to tackle the list from the beginning.
*Generally, a reduction of 20-25% in the length of the list was normal.  For example, K went from ~400 to ~300.  There is some activity everywhere, and even if the list is not updated for a while longer (or ever), it will take at least three more months to exhaust it, and probably more. YechielMan 01:47, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what the point of the numbers at the top is... all you have to do to see how many there are, is to scroll to the bottom. Perhaps they are there to provide a measure of current progress? A more accurate way to compare progress might be the size in kilobytes of the original update, to the current size. For A-L this number is 151 to 105, which is closer to a third complete. That also doesn't account for articles which have been improved but not yet removed from the list. Salad Days 02:38, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I thought the idea of the numbers at the top (which I think were put there with the original update) was to go "oh wow, we've gotten X done"... --Alynna 18:36, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's always what I assumed they were there for, and the reason I added a bunch of them when the last update was done. It gives me a sense of collective accomplishment to see that we started with 895 in a certain letter and have whittled it down to 254 (which I can see by scrolling down to the bottom of that section.) If the count at the top is strictly to see how many we have at the current instant, it's a bit pointless. Kathy A. 19:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Why oh why must somebody tamper with the number of articles? There were 580 at list regeneration, I can see how many there are now because they are numbered.  Please leave the numbers alone, I like to see how much we have done without spending hours on the history screen. --Richhoncho 19:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have been bold and added back the original number of entries for A-K. Will do L-Z tomorrow a.m. if no one beats me to it. Kathy A. 01:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I like how you added both: it makes it look like we are whacking away at the hitpoints of a monster. Salad Days 01:42, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well done, Kathy A, much gratitude from this contributor. --Richhoncho 09:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article count update

message: While I really appreciate what your doing on the front page YechielMan I think you need an overview to start off, then a second section with more detail if you want.  We don't want to scare off newcomers, by making it to complex, the primary goal of this project is add wiki links to articles.  While the rest of the stuff you are talking about might be nice to do, there are other projects and editors to do them. Just as articles progress slowly so do editors.  We start with one thing and as we learn more we do more, but not just starting out.  Jeepday 03:38, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I will think about it.  My rationale was that the text as I saw it was uncompelling, and that these are the criteria that I use to deal with DEP.  I see that a more simplified approach might benefit users who come from a cleanup/wikify background rather than an notability/AFD background. YechielMan 05:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Jeepday, I tried a new version.  I'd like your feedback here.  The purpose of this edit was to simplify things for people without AFD interests. YechielMan 05:30, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  YechielMan you did a great job on the directions.  Simple starting for newbies and people coming from other projects, and more complex for the advanced user.  I think you should add Wikipedia:Dead-end pages to your vanity list. Jeepday 13:38, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ditto Jeepday, --Richhoncho 14:23, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How you can help edits

message: What is the the thought on putting in section breaks?  I like them especially for any letter with lots of articles as it makes it easier to work in the middle of the selection.  I don't mind doing the work to put them in as often as Salad Days will reload the data, if other users find them useful.  If you don't want them, I will just put them on what ever section grabs my attention to work.  Jeepday 03:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not a fan of the section breaks within the letters. (I don't find it all that hard to scroll down, even through the big sections.) However, I won't get worked up about them, either. *grin*--Kathy A. 05:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Section breaks within letters, Good idea or not?

message: Just a quick reminder to everyone on the project that blatant and total copyvio is eligible for speedy deletion under the "db-copyvio|url" template. There's a ton of articles on dead-end pages that are rather long and totally unwikified, which is a dead giveaway. All you have to do is grab a random sentence fragment and paste it into Google in quotes to spot the source. Salad Days 23:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just be sure it is not a Wikipedia Mirror that you find ;) Jeepday 00:58, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio