There are a whole bunch of pages that were created as protected pages when they were meant to be redirects. You can fix the redirect at this point by deleting the surplus text, but that leaves the protected page sitting there by itself... these pages apparantly cannot be linked to or accessed once the false redirect is gone - I tried adding them to the 'to be deleted' list and the link doesn't transfer. So what's to be done about them? Should I stop correcting the redirects? Or doesn't the empty page matter once it's out of the linking system?
On ven, 2002-05-17 at 23:12, Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
There are a whole bunch of pages that were created as protected pages when they were meant to be redirects. You can fix the redirect at this point by deleting the surplus text, but that leaves the protected page sitting there by itself... these pages apparantly cannot be linked to or accessed once the false redirect is gone - I tried adding them to the 'to be deleted' list and the link doesn't transfer. So what's to be done about them? Should I stop correcting the redirects? Or doesn't the empty page matter once it's out of the linking system?
As far as I can tell, these pages don't exist and never did -- you can't save them, after all, so they are never created -- so there's nothing to delete!
It should probably be made clearer that a page that doesn't exist *doesn't exist* when you try to load it up... The traditional indicator is that a nonexistant page pops up an edit box, but that doesn't help with illegal titles that can't be saved and thus can't be edited. I'll throw together a nice warning message.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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