https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33413

--- Comment #3 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2011-12-30 02:53:07 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Recently, pages with broken file links are automatically put into
> [[Category:Pages with broken file links]]. This would be very useful for
> finding image problems in articles, but it is crippled by the large number of
> non-content pages polluting the category. The following namespaces should not
> be put into this category:
> 
> * all talk namespaces - lots of broken image links, mostly due to deleted
> images in signatures; fixing them is a huge waste of effort
> * Project namespace - used as a talk namespace, so it has the above mentioned
> problem (this is Wikipedia-specific, other projects might use their project
> namespace in different ways, so maybe there should be a configuration setting
> for which namespaces to exempt?)
> * User namespace - on many wikis it is conisdered bad manners to make
> unrequested changes on someone's user page,

Hmm, i didn't think about talk pages when introducing that feature. Perhaps it
should be limited to "content" namespaces (by default? by config?)

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