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**Author:** `c.stafford` **Description:** this problem still exists as of today (2007-11-18). i've traced it down to the line $parser->mOutput->addLink( $title, $id ); that was added by tstarling in revision 19892 on Mon Feb 12 10:24:23 2007 UTC with the reason "Register a link on #ifexist. Otherwise this breaks cache coherency.." i can find no logical reasoning for this change. all it is doing is checking if the target exists, and outputting one of two user supplied text blocks. and that is all it should do. it is not making a link to target, nor does it display a link to target anywhere in the scope of this functions code so why does the target need to be added to the link list? granted, i do not have a complete grasp of the internals of the parser nor the cache systems, but the feedback noise on special:whatlinkshere renders the page useless. -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: major **See Also**: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16584 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15735 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10857 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31628 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71637

**Author:** `c.stafford` **Description:** this problem still exists as of today (2007-11-18). i've traced it down to the line $parser->mOutput->addLink( $title, $id ); that was added by tstarling in revision 19892 on Mon Feb 12 10:24:23 2007 UTC with the reason "Register a link on #ifexist. Otherwise this breaks cache coherency.." i can find no logical reasoning for this change. all it is doing is checking if the target exists, and outputting one of two user supplied text blocks. and that is all it should do. it is not making a link to target, nor does it display a link to target anywhere in the scope of this functions code so why does the target need to be added to the link list? granted, i do not have a complete grasp of the internals of the parser nor the cache systems, but the feedback noise on special:whatlinkshere renders the page useless. -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: major **See Also**: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16584 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15735 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10857 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31628 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71637 This card tracks a proposal from the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey This proposal received 11 support votes, and was ranked #62 out of 107 proposals. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Miscellaneous#Error_categorization_by_.23ifexist_bug

**Author:** `c.stafford` **Description:** this problem still exists as of today (2007-11-18). i've traced it down to the line $parser->mOutput->addLink( $title, $id ); that was added by tstarling in revision 19892 on Mon Feb 12 10:24:23 2007 UTC with the reason "Register a link on #ifexist. Otherwise this breaks cache coherency.." i can find no logical reasoning for this change. all it is doing is checking if the target exists, and outputting one of two user supplied text blocks. and that is all it should do. it is not making a link to target, nor does it display a link to target anywhere in the scope of this functions code so why does the target need to be added to the link list? granted, i do not have a complete grasp of the internals of the parser nor the cache systems, but the feedback noise on special:whatlinkshere renders the page useless. -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: major **See Also**: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16584 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15735 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10857 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31628 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71637 This card tracks a proposal from the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey This proposal received 11 support votes, and was ranked #62 out of 107 proposals. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Miscellaneous#Error_categorization_by_.23ifexist_bug