User blog comment:Xean/Clean Up Your Wiki (No Soap Necessary)/@comment-88.111.138.137-20110908110213

One problem with most of these special page list is the cut off at a 1000 pages. Some wikis structure used red links to show pages are needed and as they are used in navboxes added to every page ina section of the wiki the list soon fills up.

Not making them as red links means going back to many articles as well to add them later which new users wil not know to do, so far better to add them when creating the article(s) originally so that they then link to related articles when created.