Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7697305-20140720031357/@comment-1863391-20150326203336

If I leave a message here, everyone following it will be notified, right?

I'm afraid this project caused quite a bit of damage. Because pages were first renamed from "_____" to "_____ (Disambiguation)" and then deleted. It may have seemed like deleting the pages wouldn't have created any broken links. However, links to the "_____" pages are still all over the wiki, which try to redirect users to the Disambiguation pages but can't, because they're gone. Go to Copper Bar and click on Iron or Silver to see what I'm talking about. I'll leave these two as examples, and won't fix them just yet.

Two things need to be done here ASAP. First, the links to the broken redirects need to be fixed and pointed to their appropriate articles. Because they were links to disambiguation pages, context needs to be considered here. You can't just blindly change all "Silver" links to "Silver Ore" because "Silver" in that sentence might have been intended to apply to Silver Broadsword. Here's an example of that. After all that's done, the broken redirect page should be fixed because they're common titles and users are very likely to try searching for them. For example, "Bats".

Please assist me in this, if you can. I don't think I'm going to have time to fix all of the links myself. You might find Special:BrokenRedirects useful here. I think that list contains most of the problem pages, but there are probably more.

Thanks, Dzy