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Bug 50986 - VisualEditor should not encourage links of little relevance (e.g. disambiguation pages, already used links, etc..)
VisualEditor should not encourage links of little relevance (e.g. disambiguat...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50240
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal
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Assigned To: Rob Moen
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2013-07-08 22:57 UTC by Helder
Modified: 2013-07-10 16:13 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Helder 2013-07-08 22:57:34 UTC
1) Open an article such as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_function?veaction=edit
2) Click in a non-linked word "function"
3) Click in the link button (CTRL+K)

The list of matching pages will include the disambiguation page "[[Function]]", which should actually be avoided.

Similarly, if a paragraph already has a link to [[Function]], then it should not appear in a second atempt to add the same link (or there should be some visual indication that this kind of link is not desirable - e.g. by having a section in the dropdown menu labeled "Already used links...")
Comment 1 Helder 2013-07-08 23:26:37 UTC
PS: this was inspired by the commit message of
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72646/
Comment 2 Helder 2013-07-10 15:10:16 UTC
See also Gerrit change #70564.
Comment 3 James Forrester 2013-07-10 16:13:42 UTC
This is a duplicate of bug 50240; yes, this would be a nice enhancement to get done soon.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50240 ***

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