I had hoped we were beyond manual lists and English-Wikipedia-only
mentality...

I'll see if I can run it against my mix'n'match ODNB set, and cross-check
with "female" on Wikidata later.


On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 1:33 AM rexx <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>>
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