[WikiEN-l] Automated VFDing was Re: Banality threshold

[Charlotte Webb]

On 10/1/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at 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.