Talk:Wallingford

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Wallingford, Oxfordshire which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RFC bot 16:30, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion has closed and as a result this page has been moved to the ambiguous base name. --Una Smith (talk) 19:25, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Incoming links

[Begin copy from Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links. --Una Smith (talk) 21:38, 12 November 2009 (UTC)][reply]

Per outcome of a requested move, the article formerly at Wallingford has been moved to Wallingford, Oxfordshire and the dab page will be moved from Wallingford (disambiguation) to the ambiguous base name. Help repairing the incoming links would be appreciated. --Una Smith (talk) 00:46, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like once again Wikipedia's internal database indexing is not working well. I am finding many articles on the list of incoming links to Wallingford that now do not link there. --Una Smith (talk) 02:00, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could be. The job queue is jumping between 12K and 13K. Based on past numbers this should take a few minutes to process. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:49, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that Una Smith's problem was due to the link to Wallingford actually being in Template:Oxfordshire, Template:River Thames or Template:South Oxfordshire. These templates are amended, but individual pages is another matter. I'm working through some, but may not finish today - other commitments. Basically, I'm inserting "Wallingford, Oxfordshire|" into the existing link if it's clear to me that the town is the intended target. Some were not so intended; I've come across some that were better pointed at Wallingford Bridge, Wallingford Castle, Wallingford railway station, etc. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:09, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The link indexing was not reflecting changes to those templates, tens of minutes after the changes. A few months ago I showed that it was outright broken and a bug report did result. This time, it appears to be a simple delay, as the problem links I found in the list are now gone from it. --Una Smith (talk) 15:26, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've dabbed about 100 (+/- 5%) articles, it's now my bath time. Back later, all squeaky clean. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:06, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've dabbed some too; now under 100 remain. Many incoming links were of the form "Wallingford, Oxfordshire". Others included links intending Wallingford, Connecticut, Wallingford Castle, Honour of Wallingford, Wallingford, Berkshire, and Wallingford Grammar School. --Una Smith (talk) 16:42, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks all for your help. Given the above, the dab page in this case really did need to be moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:02, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done I've just done the last few in article space, and some in Talk: (the remaining two in (Article) and six in Talk: should point at Wallingford as a dab page). This leaves User: 14, User talk: 16, Wikipedia: 8, Wikipedia talk: 1 (this page!). I don't want to dab those in User: or User talk:, I have seen past criticism of such practices. Those in Wikipedia: are probably bot-generated. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:52, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

[End copy from Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links. --Una Smith (talk) 21:38, 12 November 2009 (UTC)][reply]