Author: jasonspiro4
Description:
IMO, MediaWiki should automatically do something to get rid of loop links
(self-links through redirects). I don't know what it should do though.
user clicks Save Page after editing?
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
ais523 wrote:
The first option is unsatisfactory; see the enwiki template [[Template:R from
possibilities]]; for instance an article about [[C (programming language)]] might
want to legitimately link to [[C99 standard]], but on enwiki at the moment this is a
looped link, and therefore useless. Displaying the self-link as bold is fine and an
improvement on the current situation, but transforming the selflink automatically is
a bad idea as it could seriously mess up the article in these cases (especially if
vandals exploited the behaviour, which is possible).
robchur wrote:
This may or may not add a (smallish) performance hit when rendering links.