Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7697305-20140720031357/@comment-7697305-20150326213006

Dzylon wrote:

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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.

[...] In hindsight, I'm thinking that it would've been best to put off this project until we had a pywikibot active on the wiki. The reason for this is that there are actually a couple of scripts (specifically, redirect.py and solve_disambiguation.py) which allow broken redirects to be fixed/deleted and all links to a given disambiguation to be pointed to a different target instead. I will need to temporarily restore the deleted disambig pages to run the latter script, but these tasks are otherwise things which can be handled by, if no one has any objections.