Wikipedia talk:Bad title

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[edit] Wikipedia:

Wikipedia entry gives general information about Wikipedia so I entered [[Wikipedia:]] hoping for a list of items in the Wikipedia: space, but it results in this page. I am looking to sort out the situation where Covenant (theology) info got deleted and the page now redirects to Covenant Theology which contains theological information about covenants from the perspective of a subset of Christianity.

If you want all pages in the Wikipedia namespace, go here. This makes use of Special:Prefixindex. --lE☺N2323 13:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bug

There seems to be some kind of article writing bug relating to the 'Bad Title' error page, when you search for a bad title (e.g. %20) and it says you can edit it, something that needs fixing? - Lep.

The page Bad title has been created and protected to avoid recreation, due to a bug in the MediaWiki software. Note to administrators - please do not delete until the bug is fixed. – ABCD 14:14, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Now that wikipedia supports UTF8, this page may be unnecessary. The properly spelled pages can be created, and the wrong ones deleted. For example, KroÄ�ehlavy is no longer necessary, as I have created Kročehlavy   — Chris Capoccia T⁄ C June 28, 2005 18:27 (UTC)

It's still possible to get to this page, for example with [1]. dbenbenn | talk 29 June 2005 01:25 (UTC)

Hy, I found a strange page that appears as [[Ŧ�]] in Category:China (the last link). I can't get thre and check what it is about. gbog July 3, 2005 04:17 (UTC)

You can get Bad title from [2] which is a link from Special:Whatlinkshere/Panathinaikos_FC: someone will eventually delete the redirect page, but there may be similar cases. --Henrygb 22:00, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I recently got here, by being on a history page of an article at svwiki and just exchanging "sv" in the url to "en". This is my normal way of travelling between the two wikis. The error message is not redundant. (I am kind of surprised this page exists, though. I belived this kind of things were taken care of by stuff in the namespaces MediaWiki and/or Special. / Habj 12:46, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[[User:������������������������������]] (%8F several times) links to here. Can users make accounts that link here? Or does it only link here because this was a Willy on Wheels sock? AdamRock 22:23, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

I just got here following this diff from the RC page to an article that were deleted about at the same time as I clicked the diff. Shanes 04:33, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

On The Homestar Runner Wiki I searched Wikipedia:HRwiki: clicked the create this page button and got to this page. 64.78.69.112 20:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

On H*R, if you start a page with Wikipedia: they've got it configured to transwii it to here, but that is a Bad Title because it has a colon (:) in the name. -- xaosflux Talk/CVU 23:01, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shouldn't this be Wikipedia:Bad title

Otherwise it just looks like a bad entry, doesn't it? Citizen Premier

This page exists because the software sends people here. It shouldn't, but since it does (see above), there needs to be a page telling people something has gone wrong. --Henrygb 21:46, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
If we move this page to Wikipedia:Bad title, but leave the redirect in place, it should, in theory, still work. - SimonP 18:55, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I tested it, and it actually seems like this page is no longer needed at all. The error message does not actually display the text in this page, rather it displays MediaWiki:Badtitletext. - SimonP 19:09, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Which is sad, because it makes it hard to reach this talk page and record the error --Henrygb 22:00, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
No, it still seems to pretend to be here. Click here and you can see that while the page itself isn't displayed, the discussion, history, etc. are all for this page. - SimonP 22:31, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
You seem to be right on the ugly Monobook skin - but it is no longer true on Classic --Henrygb 00:19, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] bugzilla:03970

  • Posted: bugzilla:03970 – PAGENAME "bad title" in different namespaces
  • Regards Gangleri | Th | T 09:19, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Page [[|]]

I want make a redirect : [[|]] (or |)=> Vertical_bar . thanks Yug

Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)#Characters_not_allowed_at_all_in_page_titles says you cannot. But you could try ¦, | or | in the article. The first of these (based on ¦) goes to Pipe (computing) while the other two using vertical bars for piped links go to Vertical_bar. For some reason http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/| (using a little unicode) is seen as &.--Henrygb 20:40, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Protection

I've protected this page as a pseudo MediaWiki: page. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)


One of my preferred search options is

< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20____ >,

along with

< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/ >.

These do seem to work for me.

Hopiakuta 00:54, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

< http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%20%20%20%20____ >.

Hopiakuta 03:14, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Idea for Consideration

25 June 2006 04:47 Ste4k wrote: Perhaps it would be a good idea to have the definition/purpose of the various namespaces themselves be what comes up rather than "Bad Title". A couple pointers to the documentation would be nice as well. Catch you later, I am off to try and find what I was looking for in the first place. Thanks. :)

[edit] Pseduo-wikimedia page

Is this actually a psuedo-MediaWiki page? Quite an oversight to have this exist outside the MediaWiki: namespace. Kevin_b_er 04:01, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

No. In fact, it's a bug. The true page is at MediaWiki:Badtitletext. --cesarb 04:25, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad grammar

Should be "...was invalid, empty, or an incorrectly linked..." --Ihope127 00:19, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I disagree, "The requested page title was invalid, empty, an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title, or contained unsupported characters." is a single comma-separated list with a single "or" between the last two items - which is gramatically correct. I've separated the clauses below:
"...was invalid", "empty", "an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title", or "contained unsupported characters.". Thryduulf 02:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I don't know that it's actually broken grammar, but it is bad parallelism; the first three phrases are predicative adjectives or noun phrases (at least almost parallel), but the fourth phrase is instead a verb phrase. Moreover, the fact that "was" is not repeated before "empty" and "an incorrectly..." implies that it should apply to every element of the list, but "or was contained unsupported characters" is obviously not what is meant. --Tardis 16:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] i typed in "create article"

and ended up here?

this should link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page

Bigdan201 01:44, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree. We obviously want Create article to be protected, because of this, but if someone is typing "create article" into the search box, they're obviously either a newbie trying to create a new article, or just someone curious as to what's at that location. We usually want to avoid cross-namespace redirects, so I would recommend making a soft redirect to Help:Starting_a_new_page. Subpage is an example of a similar soft redirect. Dave6 20:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)