This is from rMW64717f414cdd: Don't check namespace in SpecialWantedtemplates, so Scribunto/Lua modules would show up on the page (T104002), cc'ing patch author.

There's no 500-page limit as far as I can see, and on both en.wikisource and www.wikisource, I wouldn't exactly say it's "flooded" until you start getting into occurrences with only 1 or 2 transclusions. (The one thing I would like to fix is that transclusions of stock messages really shouldn't count.)

@Jackmcbarn You may not consider it flooded, however, taking it back to templates — and adding module if you wish — would take it back to its designed purpose — it is not Special:WantedTransclusions.

If the scope is going to be expanded it would be useful to have that debate, however, at the moment enWS preference is to align the special page's output to its designed purpose. If you think that there is the need for Special:WantedTransclusions, then please have it able to be set and displayed/filtered with desired namespaces so that communities like the Wikisources can target their needs. Thanks.

In T114200#1688670, @Billinghurst wrote:

please have it able to be set and displayed/filtered with desired namespaces so that communities like the Wikisources can target their needs.

I like this idea a lot. Making it work like Special:WhatLinksHere (for example) is probably the best way to go here.

If you plan to follow that direction, then there needs to be the ability
for a community level set default, which individuals can override.

I don't think we're currently able to add filters to cached special pages?

That being the case, can we then either simply revert the last change, or revert and add module ns: then have any "future possibility" change conversation.

I also think that this page should only be showing real templates (i.e. Templates and Modules) at least until there is a mechanism to add filters to cached expensive query pages.

I have reverted the change in gerrit, apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause, I hope that it is less than ours.

Change 245854 had a related patch set uploaded (by Glaisher):
Revert "Don't check namespace in SpecialWantedtemplates"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/245854

Hmm, I am told that I needed to have done some special syntax to get the bot to notice the change. Wasn't done sorry,
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,Ie88ecde37cbf27750df41ded8d4f79fd58bd58e6,n,z
If someone wants to kick something.

@Jackmcbarn It's still broken. Please revert the gerrit that broke a long existing & well-established functionality.

I remain unconvinced that the old situation is better than it is now. It shouldn't be that hard to add the ability to filter this data if it's wanted that badly.

In T114200#1851366, @Jackmcbarn wrote:

I remain unconvinced that the old situation is better than it is now. It shouldn't be that hard to add the ability to filter this data if it's wanted that badly.

On en.wikisource, I can't filter ~4,000 faux Page: & other non Template: namespace hits out of 5,000 to get back the list that I've been whittling down for months now. Many new-comers to Wikisource "bring" their favorite templates to us from their Wikipedia/Commons experiences but don't always do a good job of adding all-the adjacent support templates to that target template. This list made it far easier to identify and rectify those trends (I'm not talking about those hits with one or two redlinks in other words).

Who must I convince that your time is not more valuable than my time?

I believe that I have reverted the gerrit, just no one is going to +2 to commit it. It really is adding to my despondency that developers can do as they please but communities have to get a consensus. Again the WPs rule over the smaller communities. The coding change does not work for Wikisource so simply should not be in place as a global default. Please roll it back and get the assistance you need if you want the additional functionality.

Developers please undo this change or I will consider pinging pinging pinging and probably get myself out of here. I am at the point where I am not going to give a crap.

@Jackmcbarn , @Legoktm
Please revert; disrupts "logic family" of relevant Special: pages maintenance scheme.

Currently we have a long standing, simple-to-follow & logic based maintenance group of Special: pages. This group has a sub-set of complimentary Special: pages with it. This sub-set is illustrated in the table below...

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By modifying Wanted templates to something that now lists more than just the red-linked 'calls' to Template: ns files that do exist (by mistake or otherwise) disrupts both the horizontal descriptive association(s) as well as the vertical maintenance tasks at hand.

@Jackmcbarn , @Legoktm
Please revert; original change based on flawed premise; can't find any indication of a consensus supporting a change one way or the other. The premature declining of T104002 requesting something completely different than what was delivered is the only thing I can find in lieu of justifying any change.

Templates are templates, even if they're in a different namespace.

The Module: ns is not the same as the Template: ns so that logic is flawed (ns-828, wgPageContentModel=Scribunto versus ns-10, wgPageContentModel=wikitext for starters).

You expect us to believe the actual purpose of Special:Wanted templates was not meant to paraphrase something more descriptive in reality like Special:Requests calling non-existent pages expected to be located in the Template: namespace but are not ?

You're just making a play on the word template as it construes a function in general rather than the formal acceptance of the namespace designated Template:

Why can't you just leave what's been in place for decade if not more now and just build upon the existing foundation of maintenance Special: pages with...

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... instead of making a mockery of the procedures and practices in place with an obviously not very well though out "hack" that screams of personal preference instead of group acceptance.

Change 245854 merged by jenkins-bot:
Revert "Don't check namespace in SpecialWantedtemplates"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/245854