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Fix circular redirects
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[[:en:Institute of Physics#Awards]] has a zillion circular redirects (links that redirect to the originating article). I hoped that AWB would fix this with its general fixes, but it doesn't. Could this be added, either as part of general fixes or as a separate feature?

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The only thing AWB really does with multiple or resolving redirects is if you try to open page Foobar, it'll work out the end page (using the APIs redirect resolution), and open that instead

It seems expensive to do for every link on every page, because that's going to be an API call per link, or an API call passing various links, and expecting MW to resolve them (which will require database queries)

Never mind, in this case, that they all point back to that page... So really, they just want de-linking. Which doesn't sound like a majorly common use case...?

Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.Feb 10 2023, 12:05 PM