Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:11 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.
This works for me locally, using a copy of [[Template:Main]] from enwiki.
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. ~~~~
(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?
I am basing this on missing entries for existing links.