User talk:Wmahan/Articles with self-references

So, how does one get access to this Wikipedia database dump?

Or is that limited to the super-funky?

-- GrubLord

Anybody can download a database dump for the English wiki here: [1] If it's not practical for you to download a >1GB file, you could ask me or someone else with access to run a query for you. Wmahan. 13:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Cool, thanks a lot. -- GrubLord 01:03, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

"See Wikipedia:Avoid self-references for why it might be useful to correct these."

By my reading this page points out circumstances in which such links might be a good thing. The section in question says:

"The self-reference template Template:Selfref provides a way to contain all the self-references as tags. This gives the ability to programmatically remove all such references or transform them into external links. Thus, the end product can have all of its self-references removed automatically for users such as forks and mirrors.

In cases where a Wikipedia page should be mentioned on Wikipedia itself (for instance, at Wikipedia), and this link should be kept on mirrors, the format {{srlink|link}} can be used to write the link as external rather than internal, to prevent it breaking in mirrors. For instance: Main Page as opposed to Main Page:

 {{srlink|Main Page}} as opposed to [[Main Page]]

"

24.20.131.232 (talk) 00:06, 7 July 2008 (UTC)