Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/90

Redlist link includes Q number

I had a little look at the redlist for Madagascar wondering what I might do on 1st August... found that we already had an article on Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe (no accent on final letter) so thought that moving it to Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabé would turn her red link blue in Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Madagascar, and found that it didn't. Found that the red link is Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabé (Q16556943). Mouse-hovering over the rest of the list, the very first redlink is to Aloma (Q13105629) but all the other 18 seem OK, and don't have this addition. All very odd. Is there a Wikidata geek out there who can (a) see what's happening and (b) fix it? @Ipigott:? PamD 10:01, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

PamD: Thanks for communicating your interesting discovery. I've no idea why some names have a Q number attached and some don't. It will be interesting to see if Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabé disappears from the list tomorrow after the next Listeria update. If it does, then I don't think we need to worry about it. If not, we can contact a Wikipedia geek.--Ipigott (talk) 10:59, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The reason is generally that the name has an existing article not linked to from the Wikidata entry. E.G. on the Madagascar list Aloma.

You can see this better on this version of the Hungary list (with the Q's removed) where all the blue links I checked are to different people of the same name.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:16, 24 July 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Ah yes I can see that makes sense - the Hungarian blue links are footballers linking to basketball players and suchlike. Thanks. PamD 08:43, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What is the correct way?

Sorry i am not the brightest of sparks when it comes to things like this, but on scouting the pages, i noticed Siulolo Liku is in the Tonga red list, but there is already a page for her under Ana Siulolo Liku, do i just click her name on the list and redirect or is there a different way? Thank you in advance. Iantheimp (talk) 10:15, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've made a redirect from the shorter to the longer name, and also made a link (bottom of left hand column) from that to the German wiki article (traced by clicking on the Q number in the Wikidata list of redlinks). I think that's all we need. Not sure whether she should be at the shorter or longer form of her name (the gbrathletics site linked from the German article only uses the shorter name), but at least now she's findable under either! PamD 12:52, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]