On 07/02/2011 15:38, Ian Woollard wrote: > On 06/02/2011, Magnus Manske<[email protected]> wrote: >> Many of these links are due to templates, which I can do little about. >> I hope it will still be useful to some. > Is that necessarily a problem in this case? > > We still will have pages, that are potentially clickable from a large > number of articles, that don't exist. Even if they're linked from a > template, they're still likely to be fairly important to be in a > widely used template. Yes, it is a practical problem, in that priority will tend to be given to redlinks that are in navboxes enthusiastically applied to pages, rather than potential articles referred to in text (which is a much better test of "wantedness"). It is hard to care so much about such redlinks - the navbox in question may well be doing no more than mirroring a category, and we don't care that much about "articles missing from categories". Put it this way: if the navbox were a list, it would contribute once to counting such a redlink, which wouldn't distort the priorities in the same fashion.
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