Last modified: 2007-05-07 00:46:44 UTC
This can be shown by creating a template with a few sections, then transcluding it into a new page (i.e. a new user's talk page) If these were wiki sections, then if the newbie clicked the edit links on their page, they would edit the template, which would not be desired. If these are HTML sections, the links would instead point to the transcluding page; presumably a bug, but seems like what they'd expect in this case. But if it's a new page, those sections won't exist, so any edits to them will just be silently discarded. Ideally, either these should be appended to the end, or the edit link should give an error.
I've committed a fix in r20459. That adds a new error message, currently only in English.
(In reply to comment #0) > If these were wiki sections, then if the newbie clicked the edit links on their > page, they would edit the template, which would not be desired. If these are > HTML sections, the links would instead point to the transcluding page; > presumably a bug, but seems like what they'd expect in this case. This should be fixed too (new bug report?). It makes no sense for the edit links to point to a nonexistent section, generating an error message is just putting a Band-Aid on it.
Never mind, that's bug 4034.
(In reply to comment #3) > Never mind, that's bug 4034. Also 9291. Generally, silently discarding edits is bad. If it could only be triggered from contrived URLs, it may not be worth fixing; but problems with section edit links pointing to the wrong place recurs too often to be the last line of defense.
*** Bug 8902 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
