Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Miscellaneous/Separate templates in "What links here"

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Separate templates in "What links here"

Problem: "What links here" does not distinguish incoming links made from templates (particularly navboxes) from direct links made in article text. That makes it hard to fix incoming links after a page move, particularly when creating a disambiguation page on the previous title, or deleting a page. The problem is aggravated by the database lag after updating template links (even if you retarget the offending template link, "what links here" will still display the transcluding page as being linked).
Who would benefit: All editors, particularly page movers, dab page resolvers, and admins deleting pages.
Proposed solution: 1) (Better) Indent links made from templates below the template listing, in the same manner as links to redirects 2) (Alternatively) Make sure that "What links here" is updated immediately after the offending template is edited, rather than with a lag (that takes between several minutes and a couple of hours, in my experience).
More comments:
Phabricator tickets: phab:T5241 (most apt), phab:T14396 (similar 2016 wishlist idea), phab:T3392 (one of many duplicates)
Proposer: No such user (talk) 09:45, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

See also: Stop ifexist checks from appearing in Special:WhatLinksHere —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It's not always that simple. If a link is part of the text passed into the template as a parameter, is that link from the template or not? What if the template generates the link by combining passed-in parameters?
I note the proposed solution option #2 is likely impossible. When thousands of pages use a template, it's always going to take time to go through and reparse them all. Anomie (talk) 16:47, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Yes, when tidying up after moving pages it is difficult to pick out the direct links from those through templates. This would be very helpful. PamD (talk) 23:43, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support DonBarredora (talk) 23:54, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Enterprisey (talk) 04:11, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 08:31, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Лапоть (talk) 10:29, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 10:57, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 11:26, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:09, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Zoranzoki21 (talk) 14:41, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Renata3 (talk) 19:53, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nk (talk) 20:17, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 20:20, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 20:21, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support –Ammarpad (talk) 21:27, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support HLHJ (talk) 02:31, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wunkt2 (talk) 03:51, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Imzadi 1979 → 05:22, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Abductive (talk) 10:06, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jules78120 (talk) 10:13, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support NMaia (talk) 10:37, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:38, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Timeshifter (talk) 14:52, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bruce1ee (talk) 15:58, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~ Amory (u • t • c) 17:02, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Taivo (talk) 18:06, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 18:16, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Whats new?^(talk) 22:30, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support "What links here" is a great tool for finding connections, and I've often found it helpful for article-writing on obscure topics, but templates too often make it impossible to use. Pharos (talk) 05:34, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 16:38, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sadads (talk) 17:43, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support strongly Iridescent (talk) 10:22, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gareth (talk) 12:08, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support → «« Man77 »» ^[de] 13:16, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Philk84 (talk) 14:07, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support This would be nice, especially with a filter like the one for filtering links through redirects. Galobtter (talk) 14:46, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 01:35, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tris T7 (talk) 02:33, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vulp here 04:46, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Laboramus (talk) 07:30, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bencemac (talk) 08:23, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support 燃灯 (talk) 16:41, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jack who built the house (talk) 18:23, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wikisaurus (talk) 18:24, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nihlus 22:39, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support stjn^[ru] 18:23, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hienafant (talk) 19:53, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support James F. (talk) 22:44, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 00:50, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Quiddity (talk) 18:36, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support BrownHairedGirl (talk) 01:19, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alexei Kopylov (talk) 01:36, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support IKhitron (talk) 19:39, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Encycloon (talk) 23:19, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Uanfala (talk) 23:30, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support — AfroThundr ^{(u · t · c)} 03:20, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:20, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Filipović Zoran (talk) 19:33, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support DMacks (talk) 19:37, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support - FlightTime (open channel) 21:47, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thgoiter (talk) 18:41, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shev123 (talk) 21:13, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 16:21, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kpjas (talk) 10:22, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support NicoScribe (talk) 11:27, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes, please! Splitting into direct links and links via templates is very useful. Sometimes page has both, and it's very difficult to spot and fix — NickK (talk) 15:37, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]