User talk:This, that and the other/broken interwiki links/2022-05-01/wikipedia

this begins to feels Sisyphean, with more broken links added than fixed. is the number actually going down? – Jberkel 00:05, 3 May 2022 (UTC)


 * @Jberkel I can no longer see the previous version of this list, as it has been deleted, but I believe it has grown shorter since then. If there is growth, it would probably be in the taxonomic entries, which tend to be created with a set structure that includes . This, that and the other (talk) 04:52, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * A lot of editors seem to slap on without even checking if the link exists. Unfortunately we can't check this when the page is saved, so there will be endless cleaning in the future. If we can get the list down to a few entries (and sort by time) maybe it'll become manageable. – Jberkel 07:51, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * It's currently sorted by page ID, so more recently created pages are later in the order. Hopefully over time we will spot which individuals are in the habit of blindly adding a Wikipedia link, so that we can gently tap them on the shoulder. This, that and the other (talk) 09:03, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * A potential next step could be to identify and fix redirects for WP pages. One reason for the link breakage is WP increasingly deleting redirects, it seems. – Jberkel 09:40, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * is very commonly used by Equinox.
 * Species, Commons and WP are all pulling in their horns, eliminating stubs, consolidating articles. They don't seem to keep redirects in the process of deletion/consolidation.
 * Commons is eliminating underpopulated or "unstable" sub- and super- taxa.
 * In by efforts on organism names I usually just find a higher-ranked taxon to replace the pagenamed taxon. DCDuring (talk) 22:32, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I've cleaned up all the English and Translingual organism name entries, I think. DCDuring (talk) 22:33, 14 May 2022 (UTC)