Wikipedia talk:Special:CrossNamespaceLinks

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Contents 1 User: is bad, Media: is good? 2 Copyvio 3 Cleanup 4 Updates

[edit] User: is bad, Media: is good?

Some namespaces like Image: and Category: are filtered out. Also, the "in other languages" tags are filtered out.

What about Media: ? It seems from Wikipedia:How to edit a page that Media: is OK.

I am on a campaign to rid articles of User: stuff (mostly people signing their work).

What about cross-namespace redirects??? There are a lot of "thing" redirecting to "Wikipedia:thing". These mask a problem: The link will not work on an article-only export of Wikipedia.

What about Wikipedia: ? Should probably not go out with the standalone content.

Fplay 18:59, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I've been finding quite a few "signed edits" as well and have been cleaning them off whereever I find them. BinaryTed 05:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

What's with people signing every edit that they make? Isn't their a policy against this? There should be. -Royalguard11^Talk 04:40, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio

The copyvio template populates this list with loads of articles, flooding it and making it too difficult to use. violet/riga (t) 20:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. Can this be set up to ignore articles containing a copyvio template? BinaryTed 05:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I finally just went and posted a bug report asking to filter out copyvio and notability tagged articles on bugzilla and was basically told that they weren't going to change it. I find it pretty frustrating as well (being a non-admin there's not a heck of a lot I can do for articles already flagged as copyvio short of rewriting the whole thing). Maybe if you go there and add a comment we can at least get multiple people asking for it. --BinaryTed 04:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

The Cleanup template adds two category: links, a help: link, and a wikipedia: link to an article -- and this page will list it as four User: links! --Carnildo 20:57, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Updates

How often is this updated? I think it's been at least two weeks as of now. Ardric47 04:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I thought it was supposed to be every two weeks as well, but it certainly feels like it's been longer than that. --BinaryTed 15:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)