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Sub-stubs and soft redirects

(These are miscellaneous ideas I tried out, see below for what may be the best solution.--Patrick 1 July 2005 13:57 (UTC))

Some people are against redirecting a village to a municipality, and have deleted many, violating the guidelines and procedure of Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion, and breaking links, e.g. from Railway stations in the Netherlands. Therefore I made some villages a sub-stub, although I normally do not find sub-stubs very practical. At least they point now to the municipality, and contain a small bit of additional info. I do not mind having them merged with the municipalities if the redirects are restored (see also Wikipedia:Substub#Merge_it).--Patrick June 28, 2005 13:42 (UTC)

Alternatively I have made some soft redirects. A link to a soft redirect can look different using the stub feature. See also Redirect and/or link to non-existing page.--Patrick June 28, 2005 22:52 (UTC)

Links to villages

Now that the lists of villages have links, I recommend:

• bold those which lead to additional info (see e.g. [1])
• if the village page is a redirect, link with "redirect=no", or link to its edit page
• do not delete the redirects, they are useful too

Patrick 1 July 2005 13:42 (UTC)

Tracking changes

I made Template:Albrandswaard, mainly to track the changes in the articles on the municipality and its parts, and using the new Related Changes enhancement (all recent changes to linked pages are shown, not just the last one for each page). We could do that for all municipalities.

I used {{divbox|amber||..}} but applied subst twice to avoid that Related Changes shows changes in Template:Divbox and Template:Divstyleamber.

Patrick June 29, 2005 09:43 (UTC)