On 10/1/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
One admittedly clumsy way to handle this is to make a separate user subpage with links to the articles you want to track, preferably using the [[:article]] code with the colon so the backlink is not made, and to check it regularly for links newly going red.
Using a colon does not prevent your sandbox from appearing in "whatlinkshere" for article(s) being linked to, if that's what you mean. The only way to completely avoid this is to format it as an external link (full url) but this will not change color according to whether the page exists.
Probably the most useful and discrete way to do this is to paste your list of [[linked title]]s somewhere, save it, blank the page, save it again, then keep handy the URL of the revision prior to blanking.
—C.W.