Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Art of the Middle East

Problem with this page[edit]

In some situations, this page will create a Draft article when an existing article or redirect exists. For example, there is an article on Paola Yacoub and a redirect for Fahrelnissa Zeid, but in both these cases, Preloaddraft will create a draft article which seems to be counter-productive. This is due to an undocumented restriction of the Preloaddraft template which this page uses. Preloaddraft uses the #ifexist: function which does have a documented restriction: "#ifexist: is considered an "expensive parser function", only a limited number of which can be included on any one page (including functions inside transcluded templates). When this limit is exceeded, any further #ifexist: functions automatically return false, whether the target page exists or not, and the page is categorized into Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls. The name of the tracking category may vary depending on the content language of your wiki." --Big_iron (talk) 14:59, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For the same reason, this page appears in the category Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls. --Big_iron (talk) 15:12, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Created articles[edit]

@Pharos, do you want to strike or remove created articles? czar 14:49, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Czar: Maybe we should put up

marks beside new/improved articles, has a more positive vibe.--Pharos (talk) 18:29, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's also a matter of when an article is no longer "missing" (is a one-sentence stub "done"?) Is this an exhaustive list or were some entries removed? Another option is to remove created articles and revert back to the full list once the redlinks are gone. czar 23:45, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]