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Bug 16743 - Special:Whatlinkshere does not list transcluded template links
Special:Whatlinkshere does not list transcluded template links
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2008-12-21 16:31 UTC by Jerry Lavoie
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:05 UTC (History)
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Description Jerry Lavoie 2008-12-21 16:31:15 UTC
An example:
A user creates the article [[The Foo]], and it becomes so large that the article becomes split up into several subarticles, including [[History of Foo]], [[Modern Foo]], and [[Foo in Fiction]].  On each subarticle, [[Template:Main]] is translcuded by adding the {{Main|The Foo}}, which reproduces "Main Article: [[The Foo|]]".

Another editor recognizes that [[The Foo]] is not compliant with the manual of style, in that it has a superfluous "The" in the page name, and he want to fix this by moving the article to [[Foo]].  Prior to doing this, the diligent editor checks [[Special:Whatlinkshere/The_Foo]], to determine if any links need to be updated in the process, to prevent double-redirects.  He is told "No pages in the English Wikipedia link to [[The Foo]]", and proceeds with the page move.

The result is several double-redirects which confuse some readers.  In this example, it was only three, and they would be easily found by reading the [[The Foo]] page itself; there are certainly other cases where it is not so easy and more prolific.
Comment 1 Roan Kattouw 2008-12-21 22:41:24 UTC
This works for me locally, using a copy of [[Template:Main]] from enwiki.
Comment 2 Jerry Lavoie 2008-12-22 01:30:20 UTC
It does not work on enwiki.  But you can keep this bugzilla request closed, as I am now persuing a bot to perform this check, and have expanded the scope to include checking for links to disambiguation pages, and redlinks. ~~~~
Comment 3 Roan Kattouw 2008-12-22 10:04:21 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> It does not work on enwiki.  But you can keep this bugzilla request closed, as
> I am now persuing a bot to perform this check, and have expanded the scope to
> include checking for links to disambiguation pages, and redlinks. ~~~~
> 

Have you actually *tried* adding new entries, or are you just basing this on missing entries for existing links?
Comment 4 Jerry Lavoie 2008-12-23 00:09:08 UTC
I am basing this on missing entries for existing links.

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