Wikipedia talk:Special:DeadendPages

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update the cache

can someone update the cache please? some of these articles haven't been dead-end for weeks. Wolfman 18:29, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Whoa, uh, the list used to be in alphabetical order, now it's in I don't know what order. And quite a lot of them are not deadend. - [[User:KeithTyler|Keith D. Tyler [flame]]] 20:05, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

It seems to have happened again. -- Scott e^iπ 03:04, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Can someone explain to me what the purpose of this special page category is. One would think that it is a listing of pages that don't link to anything, but that is not true of the majority of the pages on this listing. What is this?? clarkefreak

It is supposed to be a list of pages that don't link to anything. But it is not dynamic, in other words it needs to be refreshed from time tom time otherwise it gets out of date and includes pages which have had links added since the last refresh. --Etimbo | Talk 16:45, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Alternatively you can use Wikipedia:Deadend pages - the list there is editable so articles that are done are removed. SteveW | Talk 14:52, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Can anyone think of a reason this page can't be generated automatically once each day or week? And when it is done, the content ought to include at the top some indication of exactly when it happened. And better yet, each time apage is saved, it could drop a token into a slot somewhere to indicate its deadendedness-or-not. (Not-dead-end tokens can be summarily discarded unless/until there is a need for them.) And Recent Changes could show deadendedness. ;Bear 15:21, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

It should probably also say what it is at the top, to encourage people to use it. --Aquillion 02:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed... and being updated so infrequently, this listing seems to be ~~pretty much useless~~ somewhat less useful than it could be though.. --Mysidia (talk) 01:03, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think a page which contains the overlap between Dead-end pages and Orphaned pages would be useful for locating up AfD candidates. Amcfreely 04:39, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly agree. Who/what is responsible for the maintainance of this page? Appropriate Username 10:16, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Homelessness in Portugal" has a link to "Lisbon". remove it. User:Yetanothermortal December 10 2020 18:24 — Preceding undated comment added 23:25, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

1000 limit

Both this page and it's companion Orphaned Pages share the same 1000 limit. Heres the link to all at once:

DeadEnd--DBEndy 04:09, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there a limit? Ardric47 04:17, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, with the limit, it makes it basically useless (in addition to the contents being really old and outdated. Can someone please run whatever process will update the contents? --日本穣 Nihonjoe 18:58, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I second that. Sandstein 09:13, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

me too. User:Yetanothermortal dec 10 2020 18:29 — Preceding undated comment added 23:31, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto. I've been adding links and reformatting pages on the list, but due to the 1000 limit and alphabetical order it only gets up to 'H': people can add new pages much faster than people can fix them up to better link into Wikipedia. Mark Grant 15:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Dead-end pages

Wikipedia:Dead-end pages. This is the Project page. I had been looking for it for quite some time--E-Bod 21:37, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What is this used for?

What is this special page used for? --George Mon e y^{Talk Contribs} 07:08, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing at the moment. The information on it is very out of date, and therefore practically useless. It's unfortunate, too, as there are likely deadend pages that could be fixed if we had this page updated. --日本穣 Nihonjoe 17:27, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you're looking for a fix list for dead end pages, try here:[1] TMLutas 20:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the meantime it was updated. Latest data is from June 10 (2006). -- User:Docu

Definition

The definition of dead-end pages is here: They are not properly formatted (wikified) or they do not contain internal links to other articles.

It would be good if this definition were at the top of the special page listing dead-end pages. I had to click three times to find the definition (and in the meantime had posted a "what is it" question here). -- Alarob

It already states at the top of the Special page that "The following pages do not link to other pages in this wiki." —Centrx→talk • 01:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That ought to be the very first sentence, before any secondary information about this information being cached and all that stuff. Gene Nygaard 02:00, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This may require developer intervention. The different text is in MediaWiki pages that can be edited by administrators, but the ordering of them does not appear to be. —Centrx→talk • 02:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1000 limit again

Does anyone known how to sort out the 1000 page limit here - it is deeply frustrating (also effects other Special Pages - but not interestingly New Pages). Lethaniol 16:47, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is updated regularly with a new list. Without the limit, the updating takes too long and uses too many resources on the servers. —Centrx→talk • 06:29, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If there is to be a 1,000 page limit would it be possible to somehow rotate through the database? The last entry this time is List of errors on Portuguese ex-Colonies stamps of India 1873. Could the database trawl be set to start at that article next time? I'm trying to go through the list and pick out those articles that can be Speedy Deleted (and cleaning any others I can as I go). Pontificake 18:34, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be possible to to simply go alphabetically ascending/descending on alternate runs? I would suspect that there are dead-end pages that are literally years old up in the N-Z range because with so few people looking at these pages its simply not possible to keep up the creation of these articles. MNewnham 15:27, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to second MNewnham's suggestion to alternate ascending/descending runs of the list. I'm currently using this page as one of my main checkpoints for editing. I'd really love it if it was run once a day as well. After the first day, a large percentage of the pages have been worked on, making it difficult to use it with any convenience. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 20:30, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Many of the pages listed here no longer exist. Is this because they have just been removed or that the list is not up to date?Med Publisher 02:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The list is not up to date. It is only updated now and then. Herostratus 02:12, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that updating the list is computationally intensive, so only performed once a week or so. I wonder if there would be a benefit in taking the existing dead-end list and checking those pages daily to weed out the ones that have been fixed? However, I've found quite a few deletable articles that have been edited by bots, and would thus drop off the list. Pontificake 17:10, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A-K, L-Z (1000 limit solved)

What happened to the organization of dead end articles into chunks by letter, and then splitting up the project page into two pages, A-K and L-Z? I thought this organization was clear and helpful. I think now that everything is in one big cumbersome list that it makes the entire maintenance process harder to handle. Verkhovensky 21:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I found it again. For some reason it had disappeared from my watchlist. Verkhovensky 21:15, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The link to the alphabetized lists is WP:DEP. Verkhovensky 17:37, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Updates of Deadendpages

I would strongly urge that more regular updates of the Special:Deadendpages be run. The pages on this list are often the trailing end of Wikipedia. Sometimes they only need cleanup and wikifying but much more often they are pages which will never be able to become regular WP articles. Currently the last time the page was updated was 2-Dec-2006 or 17 days ago, making it worthless for cleanup purposes. If there is anything I can do to facilitate the more frequent and regular updates of this page, please let me know. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 19:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly agree. I came to this page to request the same thing. John Reaves 08:30, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree also. I think we have a lot of people agreeing, but the question is, how do we cache this page (do we have to do it manually?) and who can do that? I'd like to be in on helping out this project once the list gets cleaned up. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Clarkefreak (talk • contribs) 00:11, 1 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

This special page is nearly useless without regular updates, and it has been updated often in the past. Why has this not continued? --Albany NY 13:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Because it causes a significant load on the servers and as a process continues for days or weeks. —Centrx→talk • 01:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason why this special page is not removed from Special:Specialpages since it is of no use anymore? → AA ^(talk) — 20:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The page is built into the MediaWiki software. —Centrx→talk • 02:38, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas More Article; Vandalism

Hi Folks,

I am sorry to write here, however due to the fact that I could not find any information to do in a better way and that I am not willing to invest more time I post here:

There is vandalism on the page Thomas More. Maybe someone is so kind and will change to an earlier version and afterwards delets my post.

Greetings 80.134.119.42 (talk) 20:49, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Click "edit this page" to fix it yourself. For more information, see Wikipedia:Vandalism. ~user:orngjce223 how am I typing? 17:56, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted Pages?

The Deadend list is rather useless since the majority of items are deleted pages. Why is all the chaff included? - Frankie (talk) 18:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2009

Is there a reason this was not updated since 2009?--Kozuch (talk) 20:59, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I guess there is some kind of technical fault here. I have asked the question over at Wikipedia:Help_desk#Special:DeadendPages - hopefully we will get an answer there. Lineslarge (talk) 13:45, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See the section above from 2007 - this page is disabled ! -- Beardo (talk) 17:50, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Current status text message

The text on the page currently says "Updates for this page are currently disabled. Data here will not presently be refreshed". However, it seems to be being updated quite frequently. --Derek Andrews (talk) 14:06, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deadend Pages Broken?

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T104075

Is the deadend pages list broken, most of the links I've clicked on have internal links so should not be in this list. Most of the pages have had internal links for a very long time. Maybe some clarification added to the deadend page on frequency the job is run would be of help as well.

Secondly Do we need all the previous chat below this (and including this once fixed) or should it just be removed as part of a clean up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nathan.gautrey (talk • contribs) 22:29, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To the project participants and To editor Nathan.gautrey: I came here via Category:Dead-end pages. The category currently lists 199 pages as dead-end pages, so I was quite surprised to see at least 250 pages listed as dead-end on Special:DeadendPages. Something's broken when the category and special page do not match, I think. Sorry all I can do is point this out, but my real life limitations are getting in the way of working on it myself.

Just to Nathan.gautrey: You might want to work with the category instead. As for clearing out (if you mean deleting) the discussions on the talk page, unless the talk page is your own, we don't do that as far as I've seen. However, there is a procedure for archiving parts of talk pages. See Help:Archiving a talk page.

Thanks to SineBot adding your user name to your post, even though you did not sign your comment I was able to use the notification system when I wrote this. You may have just forgotten, but in case you don't know, please make sure in the future to end your posts with your user signature by either typing ~~~~ or clicking the signature button to the right of the italics button on the bar above the editing window. Thanks, --Geekdiva (talk) 21:47, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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This problem is not only on a protected page, but also requires a technical problem to be analyzed and a solution to be discovered, so I don't know if there was a better or additional template I could have used. Nathan.gautrey's problem that "most of the links I've clicked on have internal links so should not be in this list" & my problem of the Special:DeadendPages list having significantly more pages listed (476) than the Category:Dead-end pages does (43 left to go in April 2015‎ and 156 in May 2015‎ for a total of 199) seem likely to be related.

I don't know what else might help further determine the scope of the problem, so... Good luck! — Geekdiva (talk) 12:37, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Wikipedia admins can't edit pages in the "Special" namespace, as they are part of the MediaWiki software itself. So there's nothing that regular admins can do for you here. I recommend first making a post at WP:VPT for advice. You will likely also need to make a request in phabricator so that your request will be seen by the MediaWiki developers. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 06:34, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

They are also Only Orphans NOT DEAD ENDS Edmoral000 (talk) 16:34, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Medical terms

Psychotoxicity is not a term that is used in the medical field. The source is the writers creative mind. "Pharmacometrics" is also some serius word entaglement.

"Test Methods Drug-induced psychotoxicity may be defined as any state in which the central effects of a drug interferere seriously with normal behaviour...."

Please tell me where the DSM or ICD says that. last modified on 2 February 2016. This is a dead end for shure. --Polytoxic001 (talk) 16:08, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Both words are legitimate. Follow the link in your message, and then follow the external link. — Myk Streja ^talk to me 06:02, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 31 May 2018

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Add Category:Redirects to special pages Dpleibovitz (talk) 22:40, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:03, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What is the query for deadend pages?

i need SQL query for deadend pages . if possible what is the difference between deadend pages and orphan pages and what is the query for the orphan pages? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramu ummadishetty (talk • contribs) 17:01, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Surely this page can be updated more frequently than twice a month at this point

This page has a lot of potential utility for maintenance yet it’s only useful for a day or so after an update2600:1700:95C0:4900:54D5:784F:D461:B113 (talk) 17:17, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Made all pages link

also, one was not a dead end. Abdullah raji (talk) 04:50, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]