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Special:Wantedpages shows many dead users
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Author: wikimedia-bugzilla

Description:
Special:Wantedpages shows mostly dead users, due to users signing lots of talk
pages, and then having their username/user page deleted. Special:Wantedpages
should filter user pages by default.

Bug 6 is also about a limiting query option on Special:Wantedpages.


Version: 1.3.x
Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 6:44 PM
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It's not that many, and the cached Wantedpages stores the top 1000 so you can scroll past them easily. I don't think this is
much of a problem.

[At least some of them are simply due to erroneous links that haven't been cleared from the tables properly and could probably
be removed by a regeneration...]

wikimedia-bugzilla wrote:

You're right, I counted only 70 dead users out of 1000. Mark this as a dupe of
bug 6?

wikimedia-bugzilla wrote:

...Although 7% is a reasonable proportion, and it should be an easy bug to fix.
Why would you ever want to see user pages in Special:Wantedpages?

Closing as WONTFIX; there's just no good reason to complicate this with extra
options or permanently hiding large classes of links.

  • Bug 5578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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