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Special:DisambiguationPageLinks should indicate redirects
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Special:DisambiguationPageLinks displays pages that link to a disambiguation page since "They may need to link to a more appropriate page instead." But many redirects to a disambiguation page can't go anywhere better. For example, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:DisambiguationPageLinks lists the redirect

DPL (edit) → Extension:DynamicPageList

If it indicated that the DPL page is a redirect then wikignomes wouldn't waste time trying to fix it; it's as ambiguous as the disambiguation page and thus needs to stay a redirect.

To indicate redirects, Special:DisambiguationPageLinks could use a different arrow for redirects ↳ (0x21b3) which matches the one shown on redirect pages (note RTL l10n issue). It could also/instead add the notation "(redirect page)" to them, as Special:WhatLinksHere does.

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:10 AM
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In the current version the special page doesn't list the redirects at all, so this task can be closed either as resolved or as invalid.

matej_suchanek assigned this task to kaldari.
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