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In Wikipedia , editors add links to articles where they think a reader might want to know more about something. Where links are blue , readers can click on them to see a more detailed article on that subject. However, when Wikipedia doesn't contain an article for a particular link, it shows up as a red link ( like this one ).

Red links are not always bad, as explained at Wikipedia:Red link . However, Wikipedia's user experience is better when red links are managed appropriately. WikiProject Red Link Recovery is a WikiProject looking at all methods of reducing the number of unnecessary red links in Wikipedia.

They can exist for one of several reasons:

• Wikipedia doesn't have an article on the linked subject ...
  • ... because one should exist, but nobody has started it yet.
  • ... because an administrator deleted the article and did not remove backlinks afterwards.
  • ... because the subject doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines (though it might be part of an article with larger scope).
  • ... because the link makes no sense ? it may be a mistake or vandalism .
• Wikipedia does have an article on the linked subject, but under a different title ...
  • ... maybe the editor just typed its name incorrectly.
  • ... maybe the spelling of the article name in the (red) hyperlink used to be correct, but someone "moved" ( re-named ) the target article, without first being diligent enough about checking " What links here " and updating as appropriate. (This probably happens more often with changes to names of sections , than with changes to names of articles. An editor could easily forget that a section can be mentioned in a hyperlink cross-reference ? such as the link from Retting to Jute#Production . Links to nonexistent sections are not red links, however, so long as the named article exists.)
  • ... it might be hard to find because it is stored under an unusual title and needs to be moved .
  • ... perhaps alternative names need to be given to the article using redirects .

• Red Link Recovery Live is a Toolforge -based tool that does two tasks. Firstly, it can be used to check all the red links in an article and suggest likely alternative targets for them. Secondly, a more-carefully-prepared list of red links and likely alternate targets can be accessed. Project members are encouraged to work through this list. ( Discuss )
  • List of lists of red links - these can often benefit from being tidied up by checking for close-matching titles.
• The Unlikely Titles tool on Toolforge can be used to search for red links that seem improbable. ( Discuss )
• Outdated lists used prior to the above tools can be viewed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Old lists here .

The list of past and present participants in this project can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Participants .

There is also a project userbox:

This user is part of WikiProject Red Link Recovery .

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• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
• Most red links ? Articles containing the greatest number of red links
• Wikipedia:Most-wanted articles ? The most common targets of red links
• Category:Wikipedia red link lists ? Lists of red links meeting certain criteria
• Wikipedia:Templates with red links ? Red links in templates are likely to represent red links in many articles.
• Wikipedia:Requested articles
• Wikipedia:Link rot ? A project of similar scope, but for external links as opposed to internal links
• Wikipedia:TOPRED ? The most-visited red links (no longer updated after July 2016)
• User:Achim55/Bad links to pages on Commons - Links that are broken or are pointing to disambigs or redirects

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Red Link Recovery ? The general project discussion page
• /RLRL and /Unlikely links ? Discussion pages for these two tools
• /Stats ? Data about numbers of red links and historical work done by project members