On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raymond@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed, the “Notable residents” section is one that would definitely benefit from this tool. Is it just me or is there something actually broken with “What links here?”. I try to suppress the transclusions (usually coming from navboxes) but they are still displayed no matter whether I say to “Show/Hide Transclusions” but a search of the article reveals there is no other link present.
That existing feature works by hiding/showing where *the page itself* is transcluded *into*. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiFauna vs https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Wi...
Making it work differently for incoming links that are coming from a template, is a long-standing (and complicated to implement) feature-request: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T14396
However, I see this comment by Izno suggests a partial (manual) workaround, using an "insource:/[[FOO/" search. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T14396#3246134 e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=all&am... versus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:WikiGremlin (I'm not sure why Izno's example also includes the "linksto:FOO" string, but it appears to be redundant)