Thread:Shabook/@comment-3406131-20160218193832/@comment-3406131-20160306135852

Shabook wrote: Regarding the subject of red links we also talked about here. I feel they are extremely helpful if they are properly used, and wikia has a page called Wanted Pages collecting them.

That's the purpose of the red links in a wiki, to know what pages are desired and must be created.

However, many people misunderstand and misuse them as a result. That Wanted Pages list would need a MAJOR cleanup. I did it at the MCU wiki when I was made admin, and I had to remove a lot of typos, different links intended to cover the same subject, or red links kept for deleted pages in "Please delete this page" threads or in welcome messages (I ended up changing the automatic message so that it stopped generating links for pages)

It would require a lot of work in a wiki as big as this one, but in time I think that cleaning up the unneeded/undesired red links and promoting the useful ones is extremely helpful. Ah thanks! I had forgot about that tool.

Yes, of course there are stuff like typo, but in any case it's more useful than not having any text. For the delete page stuff, it's because people (and this case admins) have to clean up (and be asked to clean up) the "what's link here" pages.

Guess a new clean up campaign will have to be launched, once our current main works are ended.