[WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Andrew Gray<andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> 2009/8/4 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
>
>> In other words, I like using "what links here" to find out when
>> something is mentioned in the article *text*, rather than when it is
>> merely mentioned in a navbox template. One of the problems though is
>> that links from an *infobox* are more relevant, so I would want those
>> to be in "what links here", so cutting out templates altogether is not
>> good. But being able to *filter out* the "links from transcluded
>> templates" (and also list which templates they are coming from) would
>> be the ideal solution.
>
> Here's a little late-night hack. It's a bit roundabout, and it
> involves making half a dozen pointless edits, but it does at least
> solve the problem!
>
> Most articles have a redirect or two going to them; if they don't, you
> can always create some pretty easily. Go to whatlinkshere, and check
> that one of those redirects is orphaned - ie, there's no inbound links
> to it. Then, generate a list of all the templates linking to the
> article. Open each one, and change the link in the template to go to
> the redirect, rather than straight to the main article.
>
> Now, look at whatlinkshere. All the template links should be indented,
> hanging off that redirect; all the direct links, hopefully from
> article text, will be separated out. This also means you can spot the
> cases where an article has a link in a template *and* a link in the
> body text; it'll appear twice, since one goes to the redirect and one
> doesn't.
>
> When you're done, fix all the links back again; all nice and tidy.
> It'll have taken a few extra minutes, and a few extra edits, but it's
> better than nothing!

Thanks!

Doesn't just removing the links from the templates altogether (and
then putting them back) do the trick as well? I suppose that might
annoy some people...

Carcharoth