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Why are there so many blanks? – ABCD 18:06, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

The entry goes blank when the double redirect is fixed. -- Tim Starling 16:41, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Automation

Why isn't this automated to fix the links? It seems automated to display them. --YUL89YYZ 20:55, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Do we want a bot to fix double-redirects and then mark the first redirect as Speedy Delete? Terry 17:24, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Dunno if it wants deleting, just the 1st redirect changing to the final page. It dont take long to do manually... but yeah, it is automatically updated.

When i get bored, im going to work my way through some more of these.

Reedy Boy 17:21, 28 September 2005 (UTC)


Redirects should not be deleted. Offsite links and personal bookmarks may still be pointing to them. They also help prevent duplicate articles from being created, and show up in search results (and so help people find the article they are looking for, which might have a title which is different from what they expected). Double redirects should be fixed manually, in case there is a more appropriate destination than the second target. People should take into account what pages, if any, point to the redirect. If you don't know what a thing is, skip it and let someone else fix it. -- Beland 06:21, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, actually, the error rate for blindly changing A->B->C to A->C, B->C is very low, so I guess it's fine for bots to do. And if they do, then we humans are mostly obsolete here, except for fixing loops. But certainly "B" should not be deleted. -- Beland 03:52, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
So you're saying you like editing double redirects? <flame></flame> =) --Notmyhandle 08:24, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stranger than usual

There's a really strange item (by itself at the moment) on the double redirects page -- try this link to see it. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Panathinaikos_FC


[edit] Self Definition

It would be nice if these special pages could explain themselves. I might be very useful in fixing double redirects if I knew what they were. --OGRastamon 06:31, 30 September 2005 (UTC)


Lol

The way i do it, if you open and edit the middle link. Copy that link. Then if you click the edit button on the first link, replace the redirect with the one you copied, and add a summary that you've updated the redirect. At the moment these redirects go: 1 - 2 - 3 They are wanting to be changed to 1 - 3

Hope this helps

Reedy Boy 07:55, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Enochian angels

I just manually fixed all 300 odd Enochian angel double redirects... thats a good start ... only 768 or so more doubles to go now...  ALKIVAR™ 09:00, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blanks

This special page is kind of strange and funny... It doesn't show all 500... yet there's more than 500? Tis very odd, this page is... Anyway, I've fixed a good lot of them with my bot. --AllyUnion (talk) 12:27, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bot

User:Kakashi Bot is in the process of getting approval from Wikipedia talk:Bots to automatically fix most double redirects, so it probably won't be necessary to do these by hand anymore, except for the ones it can't fix. (Which it might be able to flag instead?). -- Beland 08:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] unfixable double redirects

I just spent a few minutes whittling the list down to these:

  1. Mix drinks (Edit) → Gin and Tonic → Gin and tonic
  2. American Terrorism (Edit) → American Terrorism → American Terrorism
  3. American terrorism (Edit) → American terrorism → American terrorism
  4. American Terrorism (Edit) → American Terrorism → American Terrorism
  5. American terrorism (Edit) → American terrorism → American terrorism
  6. Social and emotional issues in the lives of gifted students (Edit) → Social and emotional issues in the lives of gifted students → Anxiety
  7. Mix drinks (Edit) → Gin and Tonic → Gin and tonic
  8. Mix drinks (Edit) → Gin and Tonic → Gin and tonic

The thing is, Mix Drinks already points to Cocktail. The American *errorism link is protected, but that doesn't explain the doubles entries for both. And the Social* link points to Gifted already, so there's no reason for it to be listed.

Who's on duty to handle what the bot and the anons can't?

--216.237.179.238 23:56, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Got em. It seems that an article with the redirect statement followed on the same line by a template gets its links mucked up. Jake 09:12, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] There really needs to be a bot for this

There's too many for a human to do. I did over 500 last week, and it took me the whole weekend Sceptre (Talk) 17:34, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

I just stopped by and saw 8 double redirects only. I just fixed all of them. With no bot, it would take too much time.--Jusjih 12:30, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page

I just cleaned up a bunch of them. One of them is somebody's talk page though. I'm not sure what the policy is as far as messing with those so I just left it be. Fightindaman 05:20, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Odd entries

There are entries on this list that aren't double redirects like LBJ -> Lebron James -> LeBron James where LBJ links to Lyndon B. Johnson There is also a disambiguation page for LBJ which lists Lyndon B. Johnson and Lebron (not LeBron) James Any idea what causes this? --Small black sun 03:36, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

There is an odd addition to LBJ:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LBJ&diff=50359608&oldid=26843375
Possibly the entry on the special page goes away if you remove that. -- User:Docu

[edit] Currently empty?

This listing is currently empty? Is this a bug or are there currently no double redirects? —Centrx→talk • 00:29, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

There are some, you just have to cycle through the whole list. Try setting the number displayed to 500. I don't know why the page is like this. Small black sun 05:32, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

It seems that the specialpage is updated infrequently and the list is cached; at the time of writing it was only updated 2 or 3 days ago. In 3 days, a lot of double redirects can be fixed, which is likely why the page is blank. -- Daverocks (talk) 08:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] odd

Hrm... The page is currently reporting (click "500):

  1. User:Pee-Tor (Edit) →‎ Google Bomb → ‎Google bomb

How is this correct, seeing as User:Pee-Tor redirects to nl:PPP and always has? --Storkk 21:09, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

View the source, it has another link inside. I just changed. —Centrx→talk • 17:01, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] cut down

It was at 346 now it is 294

[edit] Update

Who is incharge in updating this page, please update. --Parker007 23:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Notice the note placed by the developers: Updates for this page are currently disabled. Data here will not presently be refreshed. We need to come up with an alternate method. Any ideas? —Mets501 (talk) 03:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Bug the developers at wiki tech? --Parker007 05:20, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
I tried that one already :-) —Mets501 (talk) 14:22, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Server_admin_log Whoever writes a log, tell them to update the double redirects. I don't see you telling them on their talk page there? I already told: https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/User_talk:Brion & https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/User_talk:Tim ; Lets send a message to all the devs of Wikipedia over there on their talk page. Hopefully one of them will listen. --Parker007 21:13, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
I spoke to many devs in person on IRC; they said that it was too taxing on the server to run, and it failed often anyway. —Mets501 (talk) 01:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Can you tell them to run it for one last time? --Parker007 01:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Do you want to try? I don't want to piss them off more than they already are :-) —Mets501 (talk) 01:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Please Vote here: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8799 --Parker007 05:21, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Huh? Decisions on Wikipedia are not made by voting, especially technical decisions. —Centrx→talk • 05:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
No, but the more votes people put in for the bug (votes, not comments), the higher up on the devs priority list it goes. —Mets501 (talk) 05:43, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
It isn't really important to have the page updated. You can still download an XML dump and have a tool analyse it and fix double redirects. Now, we should really be bugging the devs about getting valid updated dumps, which are useful beyond merely fixing double redirects. --Gwern (contribs) 04:25 6 March 2007 (GMT)
The patch was released on Bugzilla, and yesterday the devs updated the Wikipedia version, which included a patch for the double redirects. --Parker007 07:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
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