Battlestar Wiki talk:Think Tank/Red Link Policy

Compromise

Suggestion: Flag the Talk: pages corresponding to wanted pages with the template, and leave the main namespace alone. --Peter Farago 19:32, 15 December 2006 (CST)

Well, that would seem to be one solution, at any rate. Still we may want to work out a formal policy on how to clean out the erroneous entries in Special:Wantedpages and how to promote the task listing better, as well. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 21:23, 17 December 2006 (CST)

My Input

Personally, I've never taken a look at the tasks page, and the task page doesn't seem to be too advertised. I think the red links are useful because you can see that someone wants to link there, but there's nothing to link to. --BklynBruzer 23:44, 16 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. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 00:05, 17 December 2006 (CST)

I agree that the task page needs better visiblity, possibly a box on the main page or even above the 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 "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 {{requested}} comes in. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 22:41, 17 December 2006 (CST)