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Author: gss

Description:
If you go to the following URL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Jewish_Encyclopedia_topics/L1

and then look at the two items below, you will discover that they both link to the same page even though they refer to two totally unrelated people who happen to have the same name.

Leone Levi (JE | wp gwp g) English political economist; born in Ancona, Italy, in 1821; died in London May 7, 1888. Levi went to England at ......

Leone Levi (JE | wp gwp g) Italian author and journalist; born at Nizza-Monferrato in 1823; died at Turin Nov. 8, 1876; educated at the Collegio Foà ......

I would very much like to read the second article, but have no way to retrieve it.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Jewish_Encyclopedia_topics/L1

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Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:53 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.
• bzimport set Reference to bz21664.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Nov 27 2009, 5:54 PM
IAlex added a comment.Nov 27 2009, 6:04 PM

This is not a MediaWiki bug, the person who wrote the page can use [[Target|displayed text]] to link to the two article with the same text.

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