Author: ashley
Description:
Currently, a link to a page that doesn't exist is rendered on the page
differently from a page that does exist. I propose that a page that exists, but
its current revision is empty, be considered an empty page when links to it are
rendered.
This would allow "soft delete" whereby a page that has been emptied can be
considered "deleted", and yet its history would remain.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
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ashley wrote:
Correction:
I propose that a page that exists, but its current revision is empty, be
considered non-existing when links to it are rendered.
magnusrk+wiki wrote:
I'd like to see this myself. With the improved stub handling (length field in page table) it shouldn't be hard to do.
gangleri wrote:
question: How this would deal with empty templates.
see bug 826 comment #2
The workaround is to use an existing but empty template as the parameter, so the
text becomes "{{blank_template|y|z}}", and (since Template:Blank_template
contains no text) is rendered blank. I see no reason why this behaviour will
ever change, as it is not a side-effect at all: the template is simply being
included; if it contained the single letter "A", the result would be the single
letter "A". Passing extra parameters to a template has no effect, and nor
should it.