It's because Rich is using that page as a template to create the entries. I assume it's easier for the script that scrapes the database to just supply parameters to a template. The three crosses (or ticks) are for "confirmed", "linked" and "used".

HTH
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Rexx

On 2 August 2015 at 20:56, Michael Peel <email@mikepeel.net> wrote:

Hi Richard,

Your list seems to have some technical problems: most of the entries seem to have many red crosses next to them (for no apparent reason), and the rest seem to blindly link to

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough/ODNB_entry

Can you fix those issues? If so, it sounds like a useful list, that I'd be happy to copy over to enwp if there are editors that would find it useful.

Thanks,

Mike

On 2 Aug 2015, at 14:23, Richard Farmbrough <richard@farmbrough.co.uk> wrote:

<sigh>
I have a little list....

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough/ODNB_articles_on_women_and_girls (needs splitting up because it's so large).

Unfortunately I am prohibited from putting this on English Wikipedia.

It has been intimated that were I to encourage anyone else to do so it would be equivalent to doing so myself.

I shall have to have a word with The Powers That Be, I suppose.

All the best.

Richard.

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