Raise an exception when an invalid namespace is provided to Link/BaseLink
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	Lokal_Profil
	May 20 2019, 11:43 AM

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When an invalid namespace is provided to Link/BaseLink the invalid namespace is quietly ignored and replaced by Namespace.MAIN (per Link.__init__() behaviour). [This happens in BaseLink.lookup_namespace() and Link.__init__()].

Raising an Exception would probably be more appropriate.

This was one of the @TODOs from gerrit:442168

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Removing @TODOs	pywikibot/core	master	+0 -7

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned Here: T67262: ns parameter of Page object and/or defaultnamespace of Link object should force the namespace

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Lokal_Profil created this task.May 20 2019, 11:43 AM

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Change 511399 had a related patch set uploaded (by Lokal Profil; owner: Lokal Profil):
[pywikibot/core@master] Removing @TODOs

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/511399

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 20 2019, 11:44 AM

Similar (or duplicite) to T67262

Perhaps these two tasks (T67262 and T223897) could be solved now after the Link rewrite

Change 511399 merged by jenkins-bot:
[pywikibot/core@master] Removing @TODOs