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Template:VfD's

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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)[reply]

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

What to do with checked templates

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

What about template doc pages that are supposed to have links to non-existing pages, maybe to show examples of how to use the template? (For example, Template:Mypages has redlinks to "ExamplePage", "ExamplePage2", and "ExamplePage3" to show how it works.) --98.114.243.75 (talk) 21:20, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sections

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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)[reply]

Enacted (old) suggestions for improvement

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  • Suppress listings of "Template:VfD-*" -- Beland 08:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

Suggestions moved from project page

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New Suggestions

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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)[reply]

New Suggestion

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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.

Railroads and Mayors

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Needs the following sections:

WAIT a minute! What?!?

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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)[reply]

Proposed Mergers

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

I've decided to merge the 2007 page list into the main page. Did I do this right?--vgmddg (look | talk | do) 22:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

3 templates for the same thing, delete/merge/transclusion?

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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 (talkcontribs) 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)[reply]
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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)[reply]

2008-Jan Redirects Still Active

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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)[reply]

Thank you --vgmddg (look | talk | do) 21:36, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2011 Database Dump

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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)[reply]

2013 Database Dump

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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)[reply]