Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/ADB

Great!

The listings with bolded hints are fabulous! It looks like the auto-ticks deal intelligently with redirects. Where there's a redlink, followed later by a bolded hint, it looks like there is mostly either a need for a redirect (simple, worth doing first?) or a disambiguation page. After editors have run through these, would it be possible to run the script again? (That would mean that the ticking for the simple cases wouldn't need to be manually added to the listing each time) The bluelinks are more various. Thanks, Magnus. Dsp13 (talk) 22:41, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects are, in fact, not checked; could do if need be. I can run the script again any time; I just worry for Charles to paste 55 pages from that again ;-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 22:56, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ah, that explains the query I just was typing as you answered: in the last volume we have a line for Anton Wilhelm Florentin von Zuccalmaglio. Presumably his tick's missing because the redirect fools the round-trip. His de.ws page links to de.wp and that links to Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio which is redirected to from Anton Wilhelm Florentin von Zuccalmaglio, the en.wp article linked in this list. Dsp13 (talk) 23:11, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You don't have to worry so much about me: the work involved in posting these took about 1% of the time required for the DNB Epitome, and was much less taxing. I think we can afford a period of reflecting on what to do next, anyway. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:47, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, the scope of the ADB is something like German and Dutch speakers. But can we give a clearer definition? Are the boundaries linguistic or geographical? Is there a quote from introductory matter in the ADB itself that says what the editorial policy was? Charles Matthews (talk) 10:01, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

So de:s:ADB:Vorrede (Band 1) probably says what I'm looking for. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:08, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As far as regards what to do next, any thoughts on how to go about editing? For example, if a redlink is clearly wrong (not a plausible article title, even as a redirect), should the page be edited in place to correct it? Or will that mess up future scripts? --Delirium (talk) 20:04, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm leaving those alone, in case any are trivial to deal with if the script is run again - have you seen any recurring types of clearly wrong redirects? One sort is a stray period at the end of monarchs etc. like Wilhelm II. Dsp13 (talk) 21:03, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the stray period is the most common mechanical one. The other main issue is lists of people with the same name and an (unlinked) German disambiguation phrase in parentheses. These should be converted into plausible English disambiguation phrases, like Firstname Lastname (scholar). In my old smaller-scale attempt at this I did that automatically for some common cases, e.g.: (Arzt) -> (physician), (Komponist) -> (composer), etc., and then manually for the rest. --Delirium (talk) 22:45, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]