biesbrock.kevin wrote:

It's not specific to red links.

But I like your title a lot better, thank you :)

• Bug 22344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

conrad.irwin wrote:

Fixed in r61816

ayg wrote:

Why should <nowiki>[[File:Foo|Bar]]</nowiki> with a broken link be consistent with <nowiki>[[Foo|Bar]]</nowiki>, rather than with <nowiki>[[File:Foo|Bar]]</nowiki> with a working link? I'd expect the latter.

biesbrock.kevin wrote:

I don't understand your question.(In reply to comment #4)

Why should <nowiki>[[File:Foo|Bar]]</nowiki> with a broken link be consistent
with <nowiki>[[Foo|Bar]]</nowiki>, rather than with
<nowiki>[[File:Foo|Bar]]</nowiki> with a working link? I'd expect the latter.

conrad.irwin wrote:

(In reply to comment #4)

Why should <nowiki>[[File:Foo|Bar]]</nowiki> with a broken link be consistent
with <nowiki>[[Foo|Bar]]</nowiki>, rather than with
<nowiki>[[File:Foo|Bar]]</nowiki> with a working link? I'd expect the latter.

It seems better to be consistent with [[Foo|bar]] than not consistent at all. Feel free to create a "broken image" placeholder (I imagine that an image would still be fine in place of audio/video/whatever) which would indicate "broken, click here to fix" just as the current red-link does. (This would have the main advantage of making the brokenness of [[File:bloop|thumb|caption]] similar to that of [[File:bloop|right|caption]])

biesbrock.kevin wrote:

I guess that's why I don't understand your comment. The default behavior of a [[Foo|bar]] link is to display a red "bar" which brings you to a "Foo" link. That's why this issue was raised. To be consistent a link of [[File:Foo|Bar]] should show "Bar" with a link to "Foo".

ayg wrote:

I was confused, I thought this had to do with images that didn't exist rather than files that couldn't be embedded. Never mind me.

biesbrock.kevin wrote:

It does have to do with files that don't exist. I guess with images that don't exist, displaying an image placeholder is a good alternative. But file names can get pretty long, so I see having that "alt name" in there with a red link would be beneficial.
(In reply to comment #8)

I was confused, I thought this had to do with images that didn't exist rather
than files that couldn't be embedded. Never mind me.

ayg wrote:

For files that don't exist, shouldn't we match the convention for templates that don't exist? {{nonexistent}} becomes a redlink [[Template:Nonexistent]].