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These are the most wanted articles from the database dump of October 20, 2005. Operational (blue) links show articles that have been created since then. You may want to use the "Threshold for stub display" on Special:Preferences to check which ones are still stubs.
This ranking includes only links from the main article namespace, category description pages, templates, portals, and redirects in these four namespaces.
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How to help
Missing articles which many others link to often indicate an important subject that should be created. It might be the case that a relevant article exists but under a less popular name - moving the existing article or redirecting may be appropriate. If the article genuinely is missing, create it! Even a stub would be useful.
See also
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery.
- Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than two years
- Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
- Wikipedia:Requested articles
- Template:Opentask
How to update
There are three methods.
1.) Run the following SQL commands on a Link Analysis Database:
select concat( '#[[', link, ']] (', count, ' articles)' ) from bad_link_summary order by count desc limit 200;
This may cause problems with non-ASCII characters, but due to recent changes to the database and the ability of your operating system and SQL software to handle these characters, it might not. (Let us know what happens.)
2.) Ask User:Beland to update the list. He has some Perl scripts for this purpose.
3.) Ask the developers to update Special:Wantedpages and copy the result here.
Suggestions for improvement
- Count multiple links from the same template due to transclusion. -- Beland 9 July 2005 01:09 (UTC)
- Some articles with non-ASCII and non-alphanumerical names are improperly included. (Removed this time.) -- Beland 08:09, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
- Should exclude user pages. Many terms are high in the index because they were redlinks on the OPEN TASKS template at the time of arrival of a newbie. Or something like that. (cf. User talk:ManuelGR and the term Ailech --Tagishsimon (talk)
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- Probably only because they were added there after being listed here. -- Beland 03:50, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
General
Notes from September 9, 2005 listings:
Charonite (30 links)All links are from talk pages (and should probably point to User:Charonite).
October 20, 2005 listings:
- Country_Tracks_chart (61 links)
- Bavaria-Straubing (59 links)
- Fifth_Fundamental_Catalogue (52 links)
- Eddie_Paskey (49 links)
- David_McKay_Publications (46 links)
- Tuoba_Liwei (42 links)
- Dirk_VI,_Count_of_Holland (41 links)
- Chris_Haddock (38 links)
- Papuan_cricket_team (35 links)
- Ashot_I (35 links)
- Dirk_V,_Count_of_Holland (34 links)
- CricketArchive (34 links)
- Laeliinae (33 links)
- British_Rail_Class_117 (33 links)
- Roger_Holloway (31 links)
- Naehae_of_Silla (31 links)
- Idris_II (31 links)
- Gareth_Jones (31 links)
- Frank_da_Vinci (31 links)
- COMMLOC (31 links)
- Stefania_Belmondo (30 links)
- Jayavarman_II (30 links)
- Esta_Spalding (30 links)
- Colin_Richardson (30 links)
- Aed_Oirdnide_mac_Neill (30 links)
- Sinsang_of_Goguryeo (29 links)
- Paxson_Communications (29 links)
- KZ_Auschwitz (29 links)
- Joseph_Pevney (29 links)
- Borell_of_Urgell (29 links)
- Bob_Hilliard (29 links)
- A.Berger (29 links)
- Masa_Saito (28 links)
- Marc_Daniels (28 links)
- Long_March_2C (28 links)
- Kuntze (28 links)
- Jack_Pollard (28 links)
- F.Ritter (28 links)
- French_Antarctic_Expedition (28 links)
- Trichocereeae (27 links)
- Parliamentary_Secretary_to_the_Board_of_Trade (27 links)
- Jumbo_Tsuruta (27 links)
- Cacteae (27 links)
- Arethuseae (27 links)
- Sigtryggur_Baldursson (26 links)
- Run_rate (26 links)
- Robin_Green (26 links)
- Ray_Anthony (26 links)
- Michael_Beinhorn (26 links)
- Joseph_Mallozzi (26 links)
- Ilyâs_ibn_Sâlih (26 links)
- Georgia_Championship_Wrestling (26 links)
- Ed_Buller (26 links)
- Eadwald_of_East_Anglia (26 links)
- Dougie_Brown (26 links)
- Dave_Martin (26 links)
- Conrad_Green (26 links)
- Cliff_Breitkreuz (26 links)
- CKWT (26 links)
- Steve_Osborne (25 links)
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- Royal_Engineers_Museum (25 links)
- NTT_Publishing_Co.,_Ltd. (25 links)
- Matthew_Wood_(cricketer) (25 links)
- King_Gyeongdeok_of_Silla (25 links)
- Ken_McGregor (25 links)
- Ken_Fletcher (25 links)
- JR_Tozai_Line (25 links)
- Donnchad_Midi_mac_Domnaill (25 links)
- Alan_DiFiore (25 links)
- Aethelred_of_East_Anglia (25 links)
- Abercorn_F.C. (25 links)
- Sara_Hickman (24 links)
- Rich_Moore (24 links)
- Renaud_of_Poitiers (24 links)
- Rebecca_Moesta (24 links)
- Ray_Heindorf (24 links)
- Mitchell_Burgess (24 links)
- Master_of_Education (24 links)
- Lakeba (24 links)
- Jody_Hamilton (24 links)
- Irving_Baxter (24 links)
- Govinda_II (24 links)
- Gil_Norton (24 links)
- Financial_Secretary_to_the_War_Office (24 links)
- Eclipse_Award (24 links)
- Doctor_of_Letters (24 links)
- Dirk_III,_Count_of_Holland (24 links)
- Da_Qinmao (24 links)
- Charles_Hill (24 links)
- Celestial_longitude (24 links)
- Cathal_mac_Murchadh (24 links)
- Cape_Torokina (24 links)
- Bob_Roop (24 links)
- Bletiinae (24 links)
- Berlin-Plötzensee (24 links)
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- Airy_Shaw (24 links)
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- Michael_Jan_Friedman (23 links)
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- Margaret_Hazzard (23 links)
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- John_O'Leary (23 links)
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- The_Lonely_Lady (22 links)
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- Steve_Anderson (22 links)
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- Peter_Morris (22 links)
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- Jalayirids (22 links)
- Hiroyuki_Togo (22 links)
- HD_Ackerman (22 links)
- Grit_Breuer (22 links)
- Gareth_Breese (22 links)
- Five_Points,_Pennsylvania (22 links)
- Episodes_of_Highlander_(Season_3) (22 links)
- Edmonton_Norwood (22 links)
- East_Lancashire_Coachbuilders (22 links)
- East_India_Squadron (22 links)
- Eastern_Carpathians (22 links)
- Dale_Benkenstein (22 links)
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- Cleopatra_Records (22 links)
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- Andrew_Hughes (22 links)
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- 36_SCE (22 links)
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- T.G._Sheppard (21 links)
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- Spanish_Air_Force (21 links)
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- Shenton_Way (21 links)
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- North_Side_Gang (21 links)
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- Ndaba_kaMageba (21 links)
- National_Stadium_Tokyo (21 links)
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- Mike_Ricci (21 links)
- Michael_Roth (21 links)
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- Michael_J._Kirwan (21 links)
- Matsuwa (21 links)
- Mal_Loye (21 links)
- Lodovico_Belluzzi (21 links)
- Lionel_Newman (21 links)
- Larisa_Neiland (21 links)
- Kyebambe_IV (21 links)
- Klete_Keller (21 links)
- King_Hyejong_of_Goryeo (21 links)
- Kamaya_of_Buganda (21 links)
- J._William_Stanton (21 links)
- James_Hildreth (21 links)
- Immortal_Records (21 links)
- Hunslet_Hawks (21 links)
- Hovhannes_I_of_Ani (21 links)
- Hojo_Sadatoki (21 links)
- Harald_Meier (21 links)
- Guillemont (21 links)
- Gopala(ruler) (21 links)
- Gao_Conghui (21 links)
- Gallo-Iberian_languages (21 links)
- Fujiwara_no_Tadazane (21 links)
- Frank_B._Brandegee (21 links)
- étale_cohomology (21 links)
- Esna_Boyd (21 links)
- Emperor_Muzong_of_Liao (21 links)
- Emperor_Kwangjong_Mu_(Inan) (21 links)
- Edward_Madden (21 links)
- Durham_Light_Infantry (21 links)
- Doppo_Kunikida (21 links)
- Doctor_of_Civil_Law (21 links)
- Dirk_Ivens (21 links)
- Dick_Hern (21 links)
- Da_Yinzhuan (21 links)
- Czersk (21 links)
- Colin_Friels (21 links)
- Church_Missionary_Society (21 links)
- Cavan_(constituency) (21 links)
- Cadwgan_ap_Bleddyn (21 links)
- Brisbane_TransLink_Zone_3 (21 links)
- Bormio (21 links)
- Bobby_Au-Yeung (21 links)
- Benny_Davis (21 links)
- Australasian_Antarctic_Expedition (21 links)
- Archie_Publications (21 links)
- Aethelbert_of_East_Anglia (21 links)
- Achod_Bagratuni (21 links)
- Universal_Press_Syndicate (20 links)
- Thomas_Frost (20 links)
- The_Worcestershire_Regiment (20 links)
- The_Mirror_Has_Two_Faces (20 links)
- TF2_(Tenerife) (20 links)
- Tanggu (20 links)
- Swantipolk_of_Pomerania (20 links)
- Steve_Evetts (20 links)
- Spitfire_Records (20 links)
- Scott_Mellanby (20 links)
- Saifawa (20 links)
- Sabina (20 links)
- Russ_Taff (20 links)
- Robert_Farrell (20 links)
- Richard_E._Geis (20 links)
- René_Renoult (20 links)
- Petra_Rossner (20 links)
- Peter_G._Gerry (20 links)
- Pennzoil (20 links)
- Pearl_Harbor_Navy_Yard (20 links)
- PalaLottomatica (20 links)
- Nicole_Cooke (20 links)
- Neil_Ross (20 links)
- Muirgius_mac_Tommaltach (20 links)
- Midland_League (20 links)
- Michael_di_Venuto (20 links)
- Mayo_North (20 links)
- Malevolent_Creation (20 links)
- Mageba_kaPhunga (20 links)
- Li_Maozhen (20 links)
- Kossol_Passage (20 links)
- K.Hoffm. (20 links)
- Kevin_Hatcher (20 links)
- Kent_League_Premier_Division (20 links)
- Julian_Farino (20 links)
- Judith_Hart (20 links)
- Joseph_Stein (20 links)
- John_Turi (20 links)
- John_P._Page (20 links)
- Johnny_Green (20 links)
- John_Boyd-Carpenter (20 links)
- Jeffrey_Ford (20 links)
- Ian_McLagan (20 links)
- HMS_Wild_Goose_(U45) (20 links)
- Guylos_Empire (20 links)
- Grey_Cup's_Most_Valuable_Player (20 links)
- Grade_levels (20 links)
- Giuliano_Gozi (20 links)
- Giancarlo_Ferrari (20 links)
- George_P._Pelecanos (20 links)
- Full_Moon_Records (20 links)
- Fred_Schepisi (20 links)
- Florence_Kaye (20 links)
- Extrasolar_Visions (20 links)
- Eric_De_Vlaeminck (20 links)
- Episodes_of_Highlander_(Season_4) (20 links)
- Emperor_Zhangzong_of_Jin_China (20 links)
- Emperor_Wenzong_of_Tang_China (20 links)
- Émile_Georget (20 links)
- Eirik_Kvalfoss (20 links)
- Eardwulf_of_Kent (20 links)
- Duncan_U._Fletcher (20 links)
- Dublin_County (20 links)
- Domhnall (20 links)
- Deon_Kruis (20 links)
- Dendroica (20 links)
- Delbert_McClinton (20 links)
- Darren_Maddy (20 links)
- Damien_Wright (20 links)
- Construction_permit (20 links)
- Centre_de_recherches_en_géodynamique_et_astrométrie (20 links)
- Carlos_Saura (20 links)
- Camillo_Bonelli (20 links)
- Buxb. (20 links)
- Boeing_Aircraft_Holding_Company (20 links)
- Beverly_Garland (20 links)
- Betty_Unger (20 links)
- Bethlehem_Shipbuilding (20 links)
- Barking_Pumpkin (20 links)
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- Aripert (20 links)
- Anthocharis (20 links)
- Alexander_Frick (20 links)
- Alawi_bin_Husain (20 links)
- Adam_Barr (20 links)
- Abd_al-Qadir_(Sokoto) (20 links)
- 46th_Street_Theatre (20 links)
- 1999-2000_in_English_football (20 links)
- 1927-12-31 (20 links)
- Universal_Wrestling_Association (19 links)
- United_States_O_class_submarine (19 links)
- Treasury_Islands (19 links)
- Transvaal_cricket_team (19 links)
- Tim_Bresnan (19 links)
- Thomas_Stanley,_2nd_Earl_of_Derby (19 links)
- Terry_Smith (19 links)
- Steven_S._Vogt (19 links)
- Star_Awards_1995 (19 links)
- Song_of_Nephilim (19 links)
- Slant_Magazine (19 links)
- S._Cofre (19 links)
- S.Carter (19 links)
- Rudderch (19 links)
- Ron_Fuller (19 links)
- Robert_W._Crosser (19 links)
- Robert_T._Secrest (19 links)
- Robert_Schmidt (19 links)
- Quincy_Center_(MBTA_station) (19 links)
- Qaid_ibn_Hammad (19 links)
- Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Arab_Republic (19 links)
- Prime_Minister_of_Brunei (19 links)
- Polonia_Bytom (19 links)
- Philippine_National_Bank (19 links)
- Peng_Yue (19 links)
- Pee_Wee_King (19 links)
- Parliamentary_and_Financial_Secretary_to_the_Admiralty (19 links)
- Pachycereeae (19 links)
- Osbert (19 links)
- Orso_Ipato (19 links)
- ö (19 links)
- North_Pennsylvania_Railroad (19 links)
- Nic_Pothas (19 links)
- Moreno_Argentin (19 links)
- Moe_Amery (19 links)
- Michael_Yardy (19 links)
- Meyer_Prinstein (19 links)
- Melbourne_City_Council (19 links)
- Matthew_Walker (19 links)
- Margaret_Hillis (19 links)
- Louis_Loucheur (19 links)
- Lehen (19 links)
- Laurindo_Almeida (19 links)
- Later_Zhou_Dynasty (19 links)
- Larry_Simon (19 links)
- Lambda-max (19 links)
- Kreuz. (19 links)
- King_Munseong_of_Silla (19 links)
- King_Heondeok_of_Silla (19 links)
- Killer_Tim_Brooks (19 links)
- Kigeri_IV_of_Rwanda (19 links)
- Kiev_Caves (19 links)
- Kazuyuki_Fujita (19 links)
- Justin_Kemp (19 links)
- John_McLeay (19 links)
- John_Godina (19 links)
- John_Cockburn (19 links)
- Jobun_of_Silla (19 links)
- Jim_Robertson (19 links)
- Jim_Lawrence (19 links)
- Jim_Cheung (19 links)
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- ISO/IEC_6429 (19 links)
- IRT_Second_Avenue_Line (19 links)
- Irene_Sharaff (19 links)
- Interstellar_Alliance (19 links)
- Inquisition_(Warhammer_40,000) (19 links)
- Ilamcheral_Irumporai (19 links)
- IK_City (19 links)
- IBM_7070 (19 links)
- Great_Britain_and_Ireland_at_the_1900_Summer_Olympics (19 links)
- Gordon_Scholes (19 links)
- Godfrey_I,_Count_of_Namur (19 links)
- Giovanni_Galbaio (19 links)
- Gilbert_Adler (19 links)
- George_Evans_(politician) (19 links)
- Fritz_Morzik (19 links)
- François_Piétri (19 links)
- Five_Points,_Georgia (19 links)
- Finance_Minister_of_Denmark (19 links)
- Fänika (19 links)
- Emperor_Yuanzong_of_Southern_Tang (19 links)
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Sub groups
Redlinks for articles that probably should not exist
- Comparison_of_word_processors (28 links) (Wikipedia generally does not contain "comparison of" articles)
- 2008_in_aviation (25 links) (Wikipedia is not a crystal ball)
- INSERT_IMAGE_HERE (21 links) (this is a mere placeholder)
- Comparison_of_news_clients (21 links) (Wikipedia generally does not contain "comparison of" articles)
Elections/Electoral districts (various)
- Winnipeg_(Manitoba_riding) (46 links)
- Australian_legislative_election,_1901 (32 links)
- Northern_Territory_legislative_election,_2001 (24 links)
- Wainwright_(provincial_electoral_district) (24 links)
- Leduc_(provincial_electoral_district) (21 links)
- Innisfail_(provincial_electoral_district) (21 links)
- St._Paul_(provincial_electoral_district) (21 links)
- Wetaskiwin_(provincial_electoral_district) (21 links)
- Manitou_(Manitoba_riding) (20 links)
Pacific hurricane seasons
- 1978_Pacific_hurricane_season (22 links)
- 1971_Pacific_hurricane_season (20 links)
- 1970_Pacific_hurricane_season (20 links)
- 1968_Pacific_hurricane_season (20 links)
Comic books
- Ace_Comics (47 links)
- David_McKay_Publications (46 links)
- Feature_Comics (28 links)
- Amazing_Mystery_Funnies (27 links)
- 1968_in_comics (27 links)
- 1944_in_comics (26 links)
- Feature_Funnies (24 links)
- New_Adventure_Comics (23 links)
- 1949_in_comics (22 links)
- 1942_in_comics (20 links)
NHL Entry Drafts
- 1980_NHL_Entry_Draft (27 links)
- 1988_NHL_Entry_Draft (23 links)
- 1987_NHL_Entry_Draft (23 links)
- 1985_NHL_Entry_Draft (22 links)
- 1981_NHL_Entry_Draft (22 links)
British Rail classes
The red links on these templates topped the Dec 2004 Most Wanted lists (which counted links from templates).
Diesel locomotives - Electric locomotives - DMU - DEMU - AC EMU - DC EMU - Departmental units | |
Diesel shunting locomotives | |
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Classes: | 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 |
Pre-TOPS type: | D1/1 - D1/2 - D1/3 - D1/4 - D2/1 - D2/2 - D2/3 - D2/4 - D2/5 - D2/6 - D2/7 - D2/8 - D2/9 - D2/10 - D2/11 - D2/12 - D3/1 - D3/2 - D3/3 - D3/4 - D3/5 - D3/6 - D3/7 - D3/8 - D3/9 - D3/10 - D3/11 - D3/12 - D3/13 - D3/14 |
Pre-1955 type: | 11001 - 11104 - 15107 - 13000 |
Main-line diesel locomotives | |
Classes: | 15 - 16 - 17 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - 33 - 35 - 37 - 40 - 41 - 41 (HST) - 42 - 43 - 43 (HST) - 44 - 45 - 46 - 47 - 48 - 50 - 52 - 53 - 55 - 56 - 57 - 58 - 59 - 60 - 66 - 67 |
Pre-TOPS type: | D8/1 - D8/2 - D10/1 - D10/2 - D10/3 - D11/1 - D11/2 - D11/3 - D11/4 - D11/5 - D12/1 - D12/2 - D12/3 - D13/1 - D14/1 - D14/2 - D15/1 - D15/2 - D16/1 - D16/2 - D17/1 - D17/2 - D20/1 - D20/2 - D22/1 - D22/2 - D23/1 - D25/1 - D27/1 - D33/1 - KA - KB |
Pre-1955 type: | 10000-10001 - 10100 - 10201-10203 - 10800 |
Electric locomotives | |
Classes: | 70 - 71 - 73 - 74 - 76 - 77 - 80 - 81 - 82 - 83 - 84 - 85 - 86 - 87 - 89 - 90 - 91 - 92 |
Pre-TOPS type: | AL1 - AL2 - AL3 - AL4 - AL5 - AL6 - EB1 - EE1 - EM1 - EM2 - ES1 - HA - HB - JA - JB |
Other locomotives | |
Departmental: | 97 - 97/6 - Eastern - Southern - Other Series |
Steam/petrol/gas: | 98 - 15097-15099 - 18000 - 18100 |
Demonstrators: | D0226/D0227 - D0260 - D0280 - D9998 - DHP1 - DP1 - DP2 - GT3 - HS4000 - Janus/Taurus |