On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Carl Beckhorn <cbeckhorn@fastmail.fm> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:49:45AM -0500, Russell Blau wrote:
> 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.

Why is there a difference between http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&blredirect&bllimit=100&blnamespace=0&blfilterredir=redirects&bltitle=Plural, where the problematic backlinks are not marked separately, and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&blredirect&bllimit=100&blnamespace=0&blfilterredir=redirects&bltitle=Ticker%20symbol, where they seem to be included under a <redirlinks> element?

-- Avi