Find broken links that are easily fixed by matching with very similarly named articles. The work of finding these links is largely done. One or more methods work to fix them:
Format:
Convention for working on these:
Thanks in advance for any help. You don't need any special qualifications to work through the list. I've been doing it like this:
I split this into multiple articles to help avoid edit conflicts a bit:
You can assume any broken link that is not struck through deserves a look. I suggest picking a letter at random.
Brion was kind enough to prepare me some listings of articles and broken links and I wrote a program to find broken links that appear to be related to an already existing article. It's not 100% accurate and there are some conflicts, so humans are needed to figure out what's valid and what's not. I found some 1678 articles that could be linked from 2073 different broken links. When done with this list, I believe a good 500 broken links will be turned into valid and useful redirects. (Ha, everyone who said I was a rabid deletionist is proven wrong!)
Right now, the list is just based on middle names which I have noticed to be a frequent cause of broken links. However, I'll probably write some more complicated programs to find other near-matches if this turns out well.
Anyway, I could use some help. The lists (it's broken into two sub-pages now) are located at User:Daniel Quinlan/redirects1 and User:Daniel Quinlan/redirects2. Please follow the convention for noting when a broken link cannot be connected to an article (other than that, the page shouldn't really need to be edited aside from questions, notes, etc.) and have fun. I've already done about 70 or so, but need to sleep now. Daniel Quinlan 06:46, Nov 6, 2003 (UTC)
Since putting up the first two pages, I added another 11600 articles that can possibly be matched to an even larger number of redirects. Daniel Quinlan 05:22, Nov 10, 2003 (UTC)