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{{WaterCoolerPages|Policy Discussion|The '''policy''' section of the water cooler is used to discuss existing and proposed policies and guidelines.<br>If you want to propose something new, use the ''[[Centiare:Water Cooler (proposals)|proposals]]'' section.<br>}}
{{WaterCoolerPages|Policy Discussion|The '''policy''' section of the water cooler is used to discuss existing and proposed policies and guidelines.<br>If you want to propose something new, use the ''[[MyWikiBiz:Water Cooler (proposals)|proposals]]'' section.<br>}}
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:# '''Fix it'''. Hit "Random article" in the left sidebar 10 times, and when an "empty" page comes up (usually, they are Main Space pages), add some meaningful content to it. Wikipedia is fair game to copy, because our Main Space is also released under GFDL.
:# '''Fix it'''. Hit "Random article" in the left sidebar 10 times, and when an "empty" page comes up (usually, they are Main Space pages), add some meaningful content to it. Wikipedia is fair game to copy, because our Main Space is also released under GFDL.
Thanks for considering this! --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 15:13, 12 March 2007 (PDT)
Thanks for considering this! --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 15:13, 12 March 2007 (PDT)
:I concur, MediaWiki made this [[Special:Deadendpages|page]] special for a reason. A red link or no link is better than a dead-end link.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 16:59, 12 March 2007 (PDT)
::I'm wondering if we should add [[Attribute:date|date]] tags within articles that reference dates and then run ASK queries from the date entry side. Most of the pages displayed in the dead-end report have links ''to them''; it's the outbound links that are missing. Rather than manually create links back out, ASK is great for automating this task if the respective inbound pages have been appropriately tagged. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:24, 12 March 2007 (PDT)
:::Date listings like [[December 20]] are hard-coded, so it's a real problem trying to add tags at the ''report level''. That is, each of the events, and person births & deaths should have respective date tags at the '''''source level'''''.
:::Then, one could merely run an ASK by year to get detailed days, or run an ASK by day to get the respective years. This would solve a lot of dead end page problems, and begin to address some of the WP hard-coding problems. I'm wondering if a bot could be written to automate this task, or outsource it to India. (Or just leave it alone for now.) [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:42, 12 March 2007 (PDT)