"Bryan Tong Minh" <bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:29 PM, yishai goldstein
<yishag(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&blred…
> 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