I just went to create a deliberate redlink on a talk page by linking to [[The weather in London]], and... that page exists now! WTF?! Were the guardians of the faith all looking the other way when some cretin managed to create it? Grumpity grump grump.
2008/6/8 Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com:
I just went to create a deliberate redlink on a talk page by linking to [[The weather in London]], and... that page exists now! WTF?! Were the guardians of the faith all looking the other way when some cretin managed to create it? Grumpity grump grump.
Well, I tried.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2008_May...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Talk:The_weat...
At least it is kept as a more or less historical page.
Risker
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
I just went to create a deliberate redlink on a talk page by linking to [[The weather in London]], and... that page exists now! WTF?!
Did you try [[Like this one]]?
I wonder if it would be possible to make a hack or extension that would actually give you an edit page for protected red links used as examples. You could edit and preview but not save. (with a message at the top saying you can't save)
A side effect of this would be a way to practice editing besides the sandbox.