London Wiki:Red links and placeholders

The first few paragraphs of this page were originally on my talk page but deserve wider discussion. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 22:03, October 30, 2015 (UTC)

Placeholder question
Would you be able to devise something equivalent to the Thoroughfare Placeholder (see eg Queen's Gate) for some of the Category entries? Jackiespeel (talk) 10:16, October 30, 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, the coding for that one looks easy enough to adapt - change the text, the border widths, the colours, ... . Have you looked at http://london.wikia.com/wiki/Template:ThoroughfarePH?action=edit ? Anyway, which category entries are you thinking of? -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 10:47, October 30, 2015 (UTC)
 * Whichever of the categories on the 'wanted pages list' you are interested in - probably all that is needed is 'replace T-for-thoroughfare with D-for-date or B-for-buildings' (and perhaps the text should read 'This [thoroughfare/date/building/etc)-related stub....
 * Then 'all that needs to be done' is matching up categories and articles. Jackiespeel (talk) 16:05, October 30, 2015 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean now. Someone can scroll through Special:Wantedpages and grab articles that belong in a selected category. Disadvantage of that, as with the thoroughfares, is that the articles will no longer be red links and therefore a casual reader who might know a lot about the article's subject will not realise that the article needs content. Keen contributors such as you can use the wanted pages list just as easily as a placeholder category when you want to attack the red links, so there's little or no advantage for you while there is the above-mentioned disadvantage regarding less keen contributors who might be inspired to start writing by the sight of a red link. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 22:03, October 30, 2015 (UTC)