This page is for finding pages in the scope of the WikiProject that require attention, by various types of specific search.
These use a toolserver program by User:Magnus Manske, and can be further adapted. The basic pattern is to look for the combination of {{ DNB}} with some other template, e.g. {{ wikify}}.
Template found with {{ DNB}} | Search | Baseline number of hits (22 May 2011) |
---|---|---|
multiple issues | run search | 72 |
rewrite | run search | 69 |
lead rewrite | run search | 1 |
lead too short | run search | 2 |
cleanup | run search | 23 |
copy edit | run search | 4 |
tone | run search | 2 |
wikify | run search | 319 |
sections | run search | 6 |
no footnotes | run search | 5 |
orphan | run search | 179 |
cat improve | run search | 55 |
one source | run search | 151 |
merge | run search | 4 |
merge from | run search | 2 |
merge to | run search | 3 |
These use a toolserver program by User:Magnus Manske, and can be further adapted. The basic pattern is to look for the combination of {{ Cite DNB}} with some other template, e.g. {{ Wikify}}.
Template found with {{ Cite DNB}} | Search | Baseline number of hits (22 May 2011) |
---|---|---|
notability | run search | 1 |
multiple issues | run search | 92 |
rewrite | run search | 73 |
lead rewrite | run search | 1 |
lead too short | run search | 5 |
cleanup | run search | 28 |
copy edit | run search | 6 |
tone | run search | 5 |
wikify | run search | 457 |
sections | run search | 6 |
no footnotes | run search | 40 |
orphan | run search | 252 |
cat improve | run search | 298 |
one source | run search | 257 |
merge | run search | 6 |
merge from | run search | 2 |
merge to | run search | 6 |
Searches that can be done by search engine, just including "DNB" in the search. DNB text was fairly clearly subedited to impose uniformity in certain ways, and this can work to our advantage in finding places in need of updating. (It was also aggressively downcased, e.g. "royal artillery" for "Royal Artillery", which is to be noted; but would need case sensitivity in the search, rather than the regular stuff.)
Typical examples are the following:
See /Prose for more typical Victorian expressions usually needing work.
This is an interesting subarea. Links for Members of Parliament should run to constituency pages, not placenames. It happens that the DNB contains a huge amount of MP information, scattered somewhat casually in the text; and part of the project's aim should be to help build up the MP listings (i.e. to check that the links back from constituency pages are in place). This is most obviously needed up to 1660; unfortunately the DNB's information about 16th century MPs is not 100% reliable, but troubleshooting can be done via the ODNB. The searches to find the information are multifarious, including
And so on. Please help build up the list.
This page is for finding pages in the scope of the WikiProject that require attention, by various types of specific search.
These use a toolserver program by User:Magnus Manske, and can be further adapted. The basic pattern is to look for the combination of {{ DNB}} with some other template, e.g. {{ wikify}}.
Template found with {{ DNB}} | Search | Baseline number of hits (22 May 2011) |
---|---|---|
multiple issues | run search | 72 |
rewrite | run search | 69 |
lead rewrite | run search | 1 |
lead too short | run search | 2 |
cleanup | run search | 23 |
copy edit | run search | 4 |
tone | run search | 2 |
wikify | run search | 319 |
sections | run search | 6 |
no footnotes | run search | 5 |
orphan | run search | 179 |
cat improve | run search | 55 |
one source | run search | 151 |
merge | run search | 4 |
merge from | run search | 2 |
merge to | run search | 3 |
These use a toolserver program by User:Magnus Manske, and can be further adapted. The basic pattern is to look for the combination of {{ Cite DNB}} with some other template, e.g. {{ Wikify}}.
Template found with {{ Cite DNB}} | Search | Baseline number of hits (22 May 2011) |
---|---|---|
notability | run search | 1 |
multiple issues | run search | 92 |
rewrite | run search | 73 |
lead rewrite | run search | 1 |
lead too short | run search | 5 |
cleanup | run search | 28 |
copy edit | run search | 6 |
tone | run search | 5 |
wikify | run search | 457 |
sections | run search | 6 |
no footnotes | run search | 40 |
orphan | run search | 252 |
cat improve | run search | 298 |
one source | run search | 257 |
merge | run search | 6 |
merge from | run search | 2 |
merge to | run search | 6 |
Searches that can be done by search engine, just including "DNB" in the search. DNB text was fairly clearly subedited to impose uniformity in certain ways, and this can work to our advantage in finding places in need of updating. (It was also aggressively downcased, e.g. "royal artillery" for "Royal Artillery", which is to be noted; but would need case sensitivity in the search, rather than the regular stuff.)
Typical examples are the following:
See /Prose for more typical Victorian expressions usually needing work.
This is an interesting subarea. Links for Members of Parliament should run to constituency pages, not placenames. It happens that the DNB contains a huge amount of MP information, scattered somewhat casually in the text; and part of the project's aim should be to help build up the MP listings (i.e. to check that the links back from constituency pages are in place). This is most obviously needed up to 1660; unfortunately the DNB's information about 16th century MPs is not 100% reliable, but troubleshooting can be done via the ODNB. The searches to find the information are multifarious, including
And so on. Please help build up the list.