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The last 24 hours, I've received 8 notifications about links being added to a page I created (Kärlekens tunga on svwiki). The diffs are the following:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Limbo_(musikalbum)&diff=40871750&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plura_Jonsson&diff=40875440&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tempel_av_alkohol&diff=40875531&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Svart_blogg&diff=40876083&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantis_(musikalbum)&diff=40876086&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carla_Jonsson&diff=40876089&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lyckliga_tider&diff=40876107&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eldkvarns_b%C3%A4sta&diff=40876161&oldid=prev

As you can see, most if not all of these are completely wrong. In
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Limbo_(musikalbum)&diff=40871750&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plura_Jonsson&diff=40875440&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Svart_blogg&diff=40876083&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantis_(musikalbum)&diff=40876086&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carla_Jonsson&diff=40876089&oldid=prev
https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lyckliga_tider&diff=40876107&oldid=prev
no links are added to this page.

In https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tempel_av_alkohol&diff=40875531&oldid=prev a link to this page actually was added, but the link already was on the page before.

Out of all these 8 diffs, only https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eldkvarns_b%C3%A4sta&diff=40876161&oldid=prev is correct.

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From a quick glance at a few examples, I believe these notifications are all related to this edit: https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mall:Eldkvarn&diff=40871635&oldid=40820733 where the link to [[Kärlekens tunga]] was added in the navbox. All the notifications are because the pages which contain the navbox are being re-cached due to an edit, which updates the database's "whatlinkshere" table for [[Kärlekens tunga]].
Note: The software isn't able to distinguish where the links are coming from (from plain [[links]] within each article, to transcluded templates or <onlyinclude> sections from elsewhere), it's just a plain listing of page-names.

See "Use-case #3" in T46787: Allow excluding pages from the page links notifications (which I suggest merging this task into).

Ah, ok! That makes perfect sense. Then the issue is solved on my part.