"Bryan Tong Minh" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:29 PM, yishai goldstein <[email protected]> > wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&blredirect&bllimit=100&blnamespace=0&blfilterredir=redirects&bltitle=Plural >> shows that there are many articles that redirect to "Plural" when in fact >> they redirect to other articles. >> For example 'Companies' is the plural of 'Company' so the article >> 'Companies' naturally redirects to 'Company', but is also listed as a >> redirect to 'Plural'. ... > That's because those pages embed {{R from plural}} which links to > [[Plural]].
And that's an excellent example of why redirect templates should ''not'' include wikilinks! See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16218 (one of several bug reports that basically are identifying the same problem -- Special:Whatlinkshere/Foo treats any wikilink appearing anywhere on a redirect page as a redirect. Russ _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
