It's because Rich is using that page as a template to create the entries. I assume it's easier for the script that scrapes the database to just supply parameters to a template. The three crosses (or ticks) are for "confirmed", "linked" and "used".
HTH -- Rexx On 2 August 2015 at 20:56, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Your list seems to have some technical problems: most of the entries seem > to have many red crosses next to them (for no apparent reason), and the > rest seem to blindly link to > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough/ODNB_entry > Can you fix those issues? If so, it sounds like a useful list, that I'd be > happy to copy over to enwp if there are editors that would find it useful. > > Thanks, > Mike > > On 2 Aug 2015, at 14:23, Richard Farmbrough <[email protected]> > wrote: > > <sigh> > I have a little list.... > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough/ODNB_articles_on_women_and_girls > (needs splitting up because it's so large). > > Unfortunately I am prohibited from putting this on English Wikipedia. > > It has been intimated that were I to encourage anyone else to do so it > would be equivalent to doing so myself. > > I shall have to have a word with The Powers That Be, I suppose. > > All the best. > > Richard. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >
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