Wikipedia talk:Templates with red links

message: 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)
replies: text: Those need to be re-corrected to their appropriate moved VFD location. --AllyUnion (talk) 09:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Template:VfD's

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: What to do with checked templates

message: 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)
thread_title:  Sections 

message: * Suppress listings of "Template:VfD-*" -- Beland 08:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Enacted (old) suggestions for improvement

message: *Count multiple instances of the same redlink in a template only once. bd2412 T 00:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We had a separate section for cities, but it's much harder to find parse out all the city-related templates than it is to parse out, for example, all the Olympic templates, or all the MLB templates. bd2412 T 02:29, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions moved from project page

message: *Suppress template sandboxes and documentation pages. (ie. In /Ships II, there is currently Template:LST-542 class tank landing ship, Template:LST-542 class tank landing ship/sandbox, and Template:LST-542 class tank landing ship/doc.) --vgmddg (look | talk | do) 21:48, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: We had a separate section for cities, but it's much harder to find parse out all the city-related templates than it is to parse out, for example, all the Olympic templates, or all the MLB templates. bd2412 T 02:29, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: New Suggestions

message: Needs the following sections:
*Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2008-Jan-Railroads (done). bd2412 T 07:11, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Railroads and Mayors 

message: Wait a minute! I'm confused! This page is currently in :Category:Wikipedia missing topics. If this page is here, then it's actually NOT missing, is it?--vgmddg (look | talk | do) 00:07, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  WAIT a minute! What?!? 

message: *Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2005-09-09.1-2 with Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2005-09-09.3-5
*Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2005-09-09.6-10 with Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2005-09-09.11-20
*Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2006jan25-TV-radio with Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2007/TV and Radio
*Possibly Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2006jan25-elections with Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2007/Elections
Overall, most of them are pretty small, and can probably be grouped together. Eventually I'd like to bring the pages in Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2007 out to the main page.--vgmddg (look | talk | do) 21:11, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: With these, I usually don't propose, I just merge when they're mergeable. I'll have a look at what is left from the 2007 dump, as many of those subsections will have been superseded. bd2412 T 22:47, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Mergers 

message: There are three listed templates here.
Template:Kansas State football seasons - Template:Kansas State Wildcats football seasons - Template:KansasStateWildcatsfootballseasons
These are practically identical, and I would normally just put two up for tfd, but since there were three of them (which is kind of unusual) I thought there might be some kind of redirect or transclusion thing that I was missing... anyone... Bueller? —Preceding unsigned comment added by  EmanWilm  (talk • contribs)  21:32, 30 May 2010
:They all seem to be separate templates. Go to WP:TFD, nominate 2 of them for deletion, and remember to sign your posts.--vgmddg (look | talk | do) 21:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  3 templates for the same thing, delete/merge/transclusion? 

message: I've raised some discussion of this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains#Stripping redlinks from navigation templates Andy Dingley (talk) 10:53, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serious concerns over stripping redlinks from nav box templates 

message: According to the Special:PrefixIndex page, all of the /2008-Jan-*** pages (eg. Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2008-Jan-001) as well as many other obsolete pages are still functioning as redirects. Can you please delete some of these redirects? Thanks. --vgmddg (look | talk | do) 22:44, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: --vgmddg (look | talk | do) 21:36, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  2008-Jan Redirects Still Active 

message: It looks like the 2011 Database Dump for the project is up. - User:RussBot/Templates with red links
::I'm going to start moving them in unless someone objects. EmanWilm (talk) 14:43, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 2011 Database Dump

message: I have noticed a sharp increase in completed/deleted templates while sorting the project. The last database dump was 18 months ago if someone wants to run the Russbot for a 2013 Database Dump, I'll take care of all of the manual stuff. Thanks EmanWilm (talk) 21:25, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: 2013 Database Dump