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:The reason that leaving red links is that if someone, like me, spells something incorrectly in red links, and someone creates an article, there is one more unneeded linking system. I rather have a stable simple page of yellow, than red. If someone was going to add info, they click on the yellow link anyway. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 00:05, 17 December 2006 (CST)
:The reason that leaving red links is that if someone, like me, spells something incorrectly in red links, and someone creates an article, there is one more unneeded linking system. I rather have a stable simple page of yellow, than red. If someone was going to add info, they click on the yellow link anyway. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 00:05, 17 December 2006 (CST)
::That brings up one of my personal issues with the MediaWiki stuff, where one small grammatical error would lead to a red link, like [[The Eye Of Jupiter]] is a red link, but [[The Eye of Jupiter]] is the actual page. I think we should try to fix that, even though it's a small issue. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 09:19, 19 December 2006 (CST)
::That brings up one of my personal issues with the MediaWiki stuff, where one small grammatical error would lead to a red link, like [[The Eye Of Jupiter]] is a red link, but [[The Eye of Jupiter]] is the actual page. I think we should try to fix that, even though it's a small issue. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 09:19, 19 December 2006 (CST)
:::Well, the only real solution to that would be to create redirects based off misspellings (the more common ones, not every permutation possible, because that would be a waste of time). However, the point you bring up is a valid one, which is why I feel that tagging pages we need to create as "requested" would be better for us than leaving it alone. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 15:30, 19 December 2006 (CST)
:I agree that the task page needs better visiblity, possibly a box on the main page or even above the [[Special:Recentchanges|RC page]]. The issue is that the articles needing to be created is actually smaller in number than the red links that are on the "[[Special:Wantedpages|Wanted pages]]" list. There needs to be a better way to organize and direct our contributors' energies, and the task list is the best option, which is where {{tl|requested}} comes in. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 22:41, 17 December 2006 (CST)
:I agree that the task page needs better visiblity, possibly a box on the main page or even above the [[Special:Recentchanges|RC page]]. The issue is that the articles needing to be created is actually smaller in number than the red links that are on the "[[Special:Wantedpages|Wanted pages]]" list. There needs to be a better way to organize and direct our contributors' energies, and the task list is the best option, which is where {{tl|requested}} comes in. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 22:41, 17 December 2006 (CST)
::I am of the opinion that the "tasks" page is a really good idea and have used it many times when creating pages especially for the Cast and Crew. Perhaps there are better ways of organising it but they are usually better than the red links. the "wanted" pages section is full of many different kinds of things not just actual wanted pages. Perhaps there is a better way or organising them though. Some more tags the bot can pick up on maybe? --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 03:32, 18 December 2006 (CST)
::I am of the opinion that the "tasks" page is a really good idea and have used it many times when creating pages especially for the Cast and Crew. Perhaps there are better ways of organising it but they are usually better than the red links. the "wanted" pages section is full of many different kinds of things not just actual wanted pages. Perhaps there is a better way or organising them though. Some more tags the bot can pick up on maybe? --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 03:32, 18 December 2006 (CST)

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