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Omit links to actions for which user has no rights.
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Description

In Meta Wiki, I was presented this message:

The page "User:Purodha/Suggestions for Wikis hosting several
Dialects" (links, delete) has been moved to "User:Purodha/
Suggestions for Wikis hosting several Dialects." (links, delete,
revert).

Followeing the (delete) link, I was informet, that had insuffient
rights to delete the unneccessary redirect, and was sent to the
main page.

I believe, good software should not display links to non-actions or
present impossible choices. It schould rather show the label but
not make it a link (as often done elswehere in MediaWiki) or omit
the useless link.

I believe, this should be handled by a standard procedure for all
such cases. This would even allow a switch in [[Special:Prefences]]
of the type "Show links to actions that you have insufficient
rights for: o No o As text only o Always as a link"


Version: 1.9.x
Severity: normal
OS: Windows 2000
Platform: PC

Details

Reference
bz8763

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:31 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz8763.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

robchur wrote:

The links in this case come from system messages, and are not supplied by the
software.