Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation/NRHPdabcleanup2010

Cleanup drive

This is the Talk page for a cleanup drive on disambiguation pages that include NRHP entries. The precipitating issue was that many dab pages have NRHP redlink entries, some not fully compliant with MOS:DABRL policy, which really bothers some editors. This drive will fix those and eliminate that source of some contention. A second issue is that many of the same dab pages are the targets of ambiguous links from mainspace articles. Note: it seems efficient and best to fix the mainspace articles at the same time as cleaning up the dab page, as the two efforts inform each other. Sometimes the proper fix to the dab page is only possible if an inbound linking article is revised: for example, an W County, X State NRHP list-article may incorrectly link to a dab page for "Y House", when it should link to "Y House (Z City, X State)". And a corresponding redlink NRHP dab entry for Y House (Z City, X State) should be revised to have a supporting bluelink pointing to that NRHP list-article, displaying "listed on the NRHP in X County, Z State". Fixing the inbound links will contribute to the major Wikipedia effort of fixing disambig pages that have inbound links. Dab pages fixed by this effort will be automatically reported in Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/The Daily Disambig.

Suggested procedure

Here's a suggested procedure. Please refine.

1. Step 1: Click on "What links here" and identify incoming links. For the most part there should be none.
2. Step 2: Go fix ambiguous links at pages that link to the dab page, to pick from the available options on the dab page.
3. Step 3: Do "easy fixes" on the dab page for NRHP redlink entries which are found to have NRHP list-articles linking to them. Do this by clicking on the redlink, and then clicking on "what links here". For one entry on the Gillette House dab page, it turns out that the entry appears in the list-article National Register of Historic Places listings in DeWitt County, Texas. Fix the dab page entries to reflect the specific NRHP list-article, by changing the redlink NRHP entries from format of [[Callaway-Gillette House]], Cuero, TX, [[List of RHPs in TX|listed on the NRHP in Texas]] to [[Callaway-Gillette House]], Cuervo, Texas, [[National Register of Historic Places listings in DeWitt County, Texas|listed on the NRHP in DeWitt County, Texas]]
4. Step 4: Address the "harder fixes" on the dab page for NRHP redlink entries where "what links here" fails. These will be cases mostly where there is a punctuation or other small discrepancy between how an NRHP redlink item appears in the dab page, vs. how it appears in the corresponding NRHP list-article for the city or county or state that contains this item. For now, these can just be addressed by your identifying the presence of any such problems here, and User:Doncram will fix those.
5. Step 5: Cross off the dab page as fixed! Please consider indicating if it was already fine to start, or not, so that we can accumulate an idea of how much further work there is to be done.

That was procedure i suggested in August, moved to Talk page December 1. Have been proceeding with cleanups without detailing all of this. --doncram (talk) 11:20, 1 December 2010 (UTC)