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Special page GlobalVanishRequest should have a help link
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Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
When visiting Special:GlobalVanishRequest , a standard help link should be provided; similar to on Special:GlobalRenameRequest

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):
When visiting this special page, I noticed there was no link to the documentation of this feature.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):
Users visiting this page should be able to see the details of what this page does and how to follow up on technical questions related to the page

Event Timeline

There is a page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extension:CentralAuth/GlobalVanishRequest. But we need a page in Help namespace. Contents can not be moved or copied due to different license.

To be precise @Amdrel would need to agree to release their content into the public domain, and then it could be moved.

But I don't see why the help link can't link to the page (which I've moved to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth/GlobalVanishRequest) anyway.

The current page contain sysadmin-specific information (configuration), so a user-orientated one should be written.

To be precise @Amdrel would need to agree to release their content into the public domain, and then it could be moved.

But I don't see why the help link can't link to the page (which I've moved to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth/GlobalVanishRequest) anyway.

I'm fine with releasing my contributions on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth/GlobalVanishRequest to the public domain if that makes things easier, as well as my contributions at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extension:CentralAuth/batchVanishUsers.php that I made around the same time (does this page need to be moved as well?).

Change #1135729 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bunnypranav; author: Bunnypranav):

[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] SpecialGlobalVanishRequest: Add help link for VanishRequest page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1135729

Change #1135729 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] SpecialGlobalVanishRequest: Add help link for VanishRequest page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1135729