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Protected edit request on 11 June 2024
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|{{#ifeq:{{#invoke:Title blacklist|main|action=create|pagename={{#invoke:String|replace|source={{FULLPAGENAME}}|}}}}|templateeditor|* This page is on the title blacklist, so only [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrators]], [[Wikipedia:Template editors|template editors]], and [[Wikipedia:Page movers|page movers]] can create it|* ''' {{ #switch: {{NAMESPACE}}
Please add a "." to the "can create it" phrase. Just a random Wikipedian(talk) 14:07, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
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[edit]On talk page archives, the "page" tab on top gives redlinks, because it incorrectly backforms a page title. E.g.
Since this template already does a bunch of logic, how hard would it be to automatically detect and correct this? Note that we already seem to have something like this for Smith (disambiguation (note the missing end parenthesis).
- Did you mean: Smith (disambiguation)?
My thinking here is to just automatically detect if the page title has /Archive or /archive in it, and if so, say something like this, e.g. for Talk:George W. Bush/Archive 1 linking to George W. Bush/Archive 1 it would say:
- Did you mean: George W. Bush?
If anyone has a reason why this would be stupid or harmful, let me know, otherwise I intend to start working on a modification that fixes this. jp×g🗯️ 00:11, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
Confused
[edit]This talk page appears to be for a template that doesn't exist. When I click on the "Template" link at the top left of the page, I get to Template:No_article_text, which starts ambiguously with
Did you mean: Template:No article text?
and continues
Wikipedia does not have a template with this exact name.
I'm clearly out of my depth here. Maproom (talk) 12:56, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
- That is what the template looks like. It's similar to how if you go to say {{db-g12}} it says that template is in the process of being deleted. Primefac (talk) 13:26, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
- @Maproom: The template is used by MediaWiki:Noarticletext which is displayed at top of non-existing pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_page (the red link No such page behaves differently). If it detects a very similar page name which does exist then it's suggested with "Did you mean"? On the template page itself, the result can be confusing. The "similar" page name is actually the page itself in this case. The template tries if the page name would exist if certain characters were removed. On the template page this test doesn't actually remove any characters so it ends up testing whether the page itself exists. It does, so the detected page is suggested with a wikilink which becomes bold text instead because it's a selflink. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:39, 13 July 2025 (UTC)