https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16743
Summary: Special:Whatlinkshere does not list transcluded template
links
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: Special pages
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
An example:
A user creates the article [[The Foo]], and it becomes so large that the
article becomes split up into several subarticles, including [[History of
Foo]], [[Modern Foo]], and [[Foo in Fiction]]. On each subarticle,
[[Template:Main]] is translcuded by adding the {{Main|The Foo}}, which
reproduces "Main Article: [[The Foo|]]".
Another editor recognizes that [[The Foo]] is not compliant with the manual of
style, in that it has a superfluous "The" in the page name, and he want to fix
this by moving the article to [[Foo]]. Prior to doing this, the diligent
editor checks [[Special:Whatlinkshere/The_Foo]], to determine if any links need
to be updated in the process, to prevent double-redirects. He is told "No
pages in the English Wikipedia link to [[The Foo]]", and proceeds with the page
move.
The result is several double-redirects which confuse some readers. In this
example, it was only three, and they would be easily found by reading the [[The
Foo]] page itself; there are certainly other cases where it is not so easy and
more prolific.
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