Last modified: 2005-12-23 15:58:18 UTC
Currently, a link to a page that doesn't exist is rendered on the page differently from a page that does exist. I propose that a page that exists, but its current revision is empty, be considered an empty page when links to it are rendered. This would allow "soft delete" whereby a page that has been emptied can be considered "deleted", and yet its history would remain.
Correction: I propose that a page that exists, but its current revision is empty, be considered non-existing when links to it are rendered.
I'd like to see this myself. With the improved stub handling (length field in page table) it shouldn't be hard to do.
question: How this would deal with empty templates. see bug 826 comment #2 > The workaround is to use an existing but empty template as the parameter, so the > text becomes "{{blank_template|y|z}}", and (since Template:Blank_template > contains no text) is rendered blank. I see no reason why this behaviour will > ever change, as it is not a side-effect at all: the template is simply being > included; if it contained the single letter "A", the result would be the single > letter "A". Passing extra parameters to a template has no effect, and nor should it.
See bug 4843.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3843 ***
