User talk:This, that and the other/broken interwiki links/2022-02-01/wikipedia

Category links
There is no inherent problem with category links AFAICT. It could be that we need to be skeptical about them, but they may never be removed from lists created this way unless there a WT:BP discussion about excluding them. DCDuring (talk) 20:10, 10 February 2022 (UTC)


 * @DCDuring There's nothing wrong in particular with category links. My script only handles main namespace Wikipedia articles, so feel free to ignore the category links. This, that and the other (talk) 00:43, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * See, for example, User:This,_that_and_the_other/broken_interwiki_links/2022-02-01/wikipedia/. Why do these get flagged? DCDuring (talk) 01:17, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * It's purely because my script is working off a list of main namespace pages on Wikipedia. Category pages don't appear on the list, so they are considered not to exist. I'll remove them from the next update to the list. This, that and the other (talk) 01:20, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Got it. They might be worth looking at in the future and also links to Commons, which are almost exclusively to categories in that project. The Wikispecies link problems are slow going. I did many of the easy ones and the short lists already. DCDuring (talk) 01:24, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * My script for generating User:This, that and the other/broken interwiki links/2022-01-20/commons handles categories properly, so that list does represent an actual list of broken links. Your persistence on the Wikispecies problems will pay off - it seems that many of those broken links reflect lacunae on Wikispecies rather than any fault on our end. This, that and the other (talk) 01:49, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * For a time I didn't check the WikiSpecies links, lately I have been doing so. I don't think others who have added the project links realize how spotty WikiSpecies coverage is, just as I didn't. DCDuring (talk) 20:14, 14 February 2022 (UTC)