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Random article goes to deleted pages.
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Author: aklotz

Description:
When pressing the Random Article button on Wikipedia, I have several times been
redirected to pages that have been deleted. In addition to being an annoyance,
it makes Wikipedia itself look disorganized.

Version: unspecified
Severity: minor

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:15 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.
• bzimport set Reference to bz6809.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Jul 25 2006, 2:28 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Sep 19 2006, 2:42 PM

dunc_harris wrote:

Are you talking about articles that show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Deletedpage ?

• bzimport added a comment.Sep 19 2006, 5:41 PM

aklotz wrote:

Yes

• bzimport added a comment.Sep 19 2006, 5:42 PM

rotemliss wrote:

The pages are not deleted – they are exist, but include only template which says
that they are deleted. The software can know nothing about it.

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