On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed, the “Notable residents” section is one that would definitely benefit 
> from this tool. Is it just me or is there something actually broken with 
> “What links here?”. I try to suppress the transclusions (usually coming from 
> navboxes) but they are still displayed no matter whether I say to “Show/Hide 
> Transclusions” but a search of the article reveals there is no other link 
> present.
>
>

That existing feature works by hiding/showing where *the page itself*
is transcluded *into*. E.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiFauna
vs 
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiFauna&hidetrans=1


Making it work differently for incoming links that are coming from a
template, is a long-standing (and complicated to implement)
feature-request: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T14396

However, I see this comment by Izno suggests a partial (manual)
workaround, using an "insource:/\[\[FOO/" search.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T14396#3246134
e.g. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=all&search=insource%3A%2F\[\[Wikipedia%3AWikiGremlin%2F&fulltext=1
versus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:WikiGremlin
(I'm not sure why Izno's example also includes the "linksto:FOO"
string, but it appears to be redundant)

-- 
Quiddity

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