This is a list of dead-end pages. The pages contained on the list below are either not wikified (are plain text, not properly formatted, and so on), and/or they do not contain internal links to other articles. To assist, head to an article and read through it. Ensure that it follows Wikipedia's Wikipedia:Style_and_How-to_Directory, and that it contains appropriate links to other articles in the Wikipedia. Once completed, remove the article from the list below. You should also make sure it is not a Wikipedia:Copyvio or in need of other Wikipedia:Cleanup.
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== Regenerating this report ==
One way to update this report is from a User:Topbanana/Reports/Scripts/Create Link Analysis Database using the SQL:
select concat( '*', art_title, '' )
from art
where links_from = 0
and locate( 'copyvio', art_text ) = 0
and art_len > 0
order by art_title;
Could this please be updated? Most entries have been resolved by now (and the rest will be by the time someone reads this ;) ) User:Radiant! 18:13, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
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Can someone update Wikipedia:Deadend pages? It's linked on mediawiki:opentask and all entries have all been resolved. --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 19:43, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
:All done except for Ammunition for infantry and Angelwings and Finerthings. I did my best but there's only so much time :-( Help would be much appreciated. --User:Phil Boswell 10:52, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)
:I have now added some sort of annotation to these last remaining entries. When this page is re-created, do the comments get carried through, or do we have to go through the whole things again? --User:Phil Boswell 10:57, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)
::If they've been fixed, theyre no longer "dead end" so they would no longer be listed. --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 19:00, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Someone should run the script for Special:Deadendpages. I don't know how to do it. --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 19:00, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
:I updated it, but it's fairly useless as it's just showing a load of misformed date redirects. It will only display 50 at a time, so until those are deleted or fixed, the list doesn't contain any actual articles. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 17:17, Mar 5, 2004 (UTC)
What script is used to generate the list? It should be done again. --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 02:45, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
:User:Brion VIBBER says the script is not to be overused or it will be taken away and User:Eloquence said the script should not be made public. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 10:19, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)
:I've recreated the list from a local copy of the last database dump. Lots of stubs in there, but also many true dead-ends. Happy to try and produce a more precise list if anyone has better criteria than ''"a page in the main en namespace with no internal links"''. - User:Topbanana 11:09, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
::Great, I was just about to do the same!
::I suppose in any stub there are a couple of words that can be wikified. If you want to expand the definition, maybe "any page in article namespace without at least two links to other pages in article namespace" could expand the list. -- User:Docu
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See Wikipedia talk:!Dead-end pages about the redirects in the results. -- User:Docu
== Deadend page needs an update ==
I think this list of deadend pages needs an update soon. Can it be re-generated easily ? -- User:PFHLai 00:07, 2004 Jul 5 (UTC)
**I'm going through right now and clearing out the articles that have already been Wikified. Give me a couple hours and we'll see how many deadends are really left. User:Wclark 10:00 AM, 2004 Jul 5 (EST)
**Actually I'm cleaning up incorrectly; I was only really looking to see if there were links to other articles, not whether other characteristics of style were being followed. I'm stopping now -- but there were so many pages that needed work that I don't think the page needs an update anytime soon. -- User:Wclark 10:43 AM, 2004 Jul 5 (EST)
:There's a reasonably up to date version at Special:Deadendpages now. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 05:37, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
== Relationship to "This_page_contains_no_links"? ==
Four weeks ago I posted a query on Wikipedia_talk:Offline_reports/This_page_contains_no_links suggesting that it has a lot in common with "Deadend pages". No response. What is the difference and what, if any, are the functional relationships users might like to know about? User:Robin Patterson 05:45, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
: The ''"Offline Reports"'' are generated periodically from Wikipedia:Database dumps. Special:Deadendpages is generated (normally) on demand from the live database. Wikipedia:Deadend pages is generated periodcally by copying information from either of the first two pages, or by following the instructions in Wikipedia:Deadend_pages/How_to_update, and may omit pages with no links that are otherwise wikified (perhaps with bolding for example), depending on how it has been updated and by whom.
: Lots of redundancy? You're right. I can only speak as to motivation for generating Wikipedia_talk:Offline_reports/This_page_contains_no_links, but:
:* Special:Deadendpages is taken offline if the database server load gets too high.
:* The live database sometimes has problems with the 'links' table needed to determine the articles which have wikilinks to and from them. A new version of the links table is regenerated from scratch during the User:Topbanana/Reports/Scripts/Create_Link_Analysis_Database.
:* "This page contains no links" in an articles "what links here" page is more informative (IMHO) than "Deadend pages"
: Happy to discuss. - User:Topbanana 10:14, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
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Partial self-duplication of Wikipedia:Deadend pages occurred [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia%3ADeadend_pages&diff=8497408&oldid=8459610 Dec 15, 2004]. Now cured (hopefully). User:FvdP 21:02, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
== Remove "not applicable" entries ==
Many articles already contain internal links to other articles and they are no more deadend pages eg: Beard Papa.
Shouldn't these entries be removed?
User:Tanul|User_talk:Tanul 04:47, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
:In general no, articles should only be removed once they comply with the style guide and are basically acceptable articles. We list deadend pages not because they contain no links, but because containing no links is an important clue that an article is sub-standard. Especially important is that a significant number of deadends are copyright infractions that must be dealt with as soon as possible. Adding , a category, or a single link does not turn and unwikified mess into a good article. Removing such pages from the list makes it less likely they will receive the attention they need. - User:SimonP 04:51, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)