User blog:Belle pullman/Redlinks

I'm trying to get on top of the Wanted Pages list, as effectively this is a list of all the broken links on the wiki. However, it's currently running to 185 links - most of which are missing performers' pages.

So please.


 * Add the performers page when you add the link to them - or at least come back as the next job you do.
 * Not all cast lists need to be full of links - for Non-replica and Regional productions, generally we're not making cast pages for every performer, only if they're notable in their own right, such as Todrick Hall. There's got to be a cut-off otherwise we'd be adding tens of thousands of pages for all the small regional productions over the past 15 years!  So only performers who someone might google "hey, wasn't this person in Cats?" need their own page.
 * Use the "Stub" tag for unfinished pages - it's better to have the bare bones of a page than a broken link!

Incidentally, the "Wanted pages" also includes the technical Mediawiki and tutorial broken pages, I have no idea why they show up or what to do about them, I just hope this promised software update in the future fixes that kind of thing. I also hope it includes dynamic updating rather than a cached list that only updates once a day... hey, a girl can dream!

--Belle pullman (talk) 15:50, November 30, 2019 (UTC)