Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Archive/ The possibility of removeing links to pages with deletion

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The possibility of removeing links to pages with deletion

Withdrawn by proposer (too many proposals)

• Problem:
  • Sometimes it is helpful to remove all links to the page (especially files) with deletion
  • Slow of User:CommonsDelinker in deletion deleted image links
• Who would benefit:
  • All
• Proposed solution:
  • Button to remove links to pages with deletion
• More comments:

• Phabricator tickets:

• Proposer: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 11:09, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Discussion

• Twinkle has this. MER-C (talk) 12:27, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
• This wouldn't equally be helpful for every wiki, I know that Dutch Wikipedia encourages redlinks as it means that the topic has been discussed often, and not all pages are deleted because of a lack of notability. --Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 😒🌏🔒) (My global unlock 😄🌏🔓) 12:34, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
  • @Donald Trung: The button may not be used.Thank you --ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 14:26, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

The survey has a limit of three proposals per person; archiving this one at the proposer's request. -- DannyH (WMF) (talk) 21:44, 13 November 2017 (UTC)