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It is unclear what (if any) purpose indices like this have ("Wikipedia indexes are a type of general topics list of encyclopedic content available on Wikipedia (the other type being Wikipedia outlines)." at Category:Wikipedia indexes is the "best" explanation I could find), but any use they do have will only work if they are kept (reasonably) up to date. However, it appears that in most cases when a new article is created it is not added to the index; the recent edits to the index are mostly wikignoming (e.g. when an existing article has been renamed or deleted). Presumably, some automated process was used to generate the list in the first place (e.g. from articles tagged by the relevant wikiproject), but there doesn't appear to be any process to add new articles to it (unlike with categories which afaics make indexes like this redundant). Thus the costs of this page (e.g. misleading readers that we don't have an article about a newish subject, editor time updating links) outweigh any benefits that it might provide. DexDor (talk) 19:38, 3 August 2019 (UTC)