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Sally Lunn[edit]
I noticed this list on Twitter. Skimming it, I was surprised to see Sally Lunn there. That's because the piped title in the list includes a Q-code. That looks like a bug of some sort. Andrew D. (talk) 14:26, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
- I agree @Andrew Davidson:, but no idea how to fix it. belatedly Victuallers (talk) 21:13, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- My understanding is that this by design. On English Wikipedia, Sally Lunn exists as a redirect but the Wikidata entry Sally Lunn (Q19897668) has no article associated with it, so it assumes that one will have to be created at a different address, hence the piped title with the Q-code. If there will be no dedicated article on Sally Lunn apart from the redirect to Sally Lunn bun, it should just be removed from the list. czar 11:54, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
- I agree @Andrew Davidson:, but no idea how to fix it. belatedly Victuallers (talk) 21:13, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
Sachs is notable for portraying Princess Leia in the Star Wars Radio drama series. Artificial Nagger (talk) 05:34, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
Large errors[edit]
The successor to the DNB is the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Its one of the few guarentees of Wikipedia notability.... and WiR have a redlist for it but its got large errors (see the talk page) and thousands of entries.
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@Victuallers were you referring to a talk page other than this one? czar 13:32, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
- This is the one @Czar:, its been mentioned elsewhere, but this list tells fibs. For some reason it creates a unique name for Mary Smith (Q123456789) and then surprise, surprise its a red link. Obviously "Mary Smith" is a lie too as its not likely to be that Mary Smith. It needs an expert at Wikidata to get an answer that it is mostly correct IMO Victuallers (talk) 13:49, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
- It should be straightforward to fix those. Either whoever first associated the ODNB identity numbers with the Wikidata "Q" identity numbers likely didn't see that a match already existed, or someone else created an accidental duplicate. In any event, the solution in those cases is to resolve the duplicate by manual review. czar 11:50, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
- This is the one @Czar:, its been mentioned elsewhere, but this list tells fibs. For some reason it creates a unique name for Mary Smith (Q123456789) and then surprise, surprise its a red link. Obviously "Mary Smith" is a lie too as its not likely to be that Mary Smith. It needs an expert at Wikidata to get an answer that it is mostly correct IMO Victuallers (talk) 13:49, 27 August 2023 (UTC)