Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-15278555-20131204031214/@comment-452-20140707181044

Thanks, here's what happened:
 * On March 3rd at 21:24, you moved "Top 10 list:Federation Legacy (Season 1, Part I)" to "Top 10 list:Federation Legacy (Season 1)", which created redirects for all list items. (You opted to not leave redirects, but that is not respected for the individual list items.)
 * On March 3rd at 21:25 you deleted "Federation Legacy (Season 1)", but you did not delete the redirects.
 * On March 3rd at 21:26, you disabled Top 10 lists.

Kirkburn fixed the problem by enabling the namespace, delete the redirects, and disabling it again.

I guess that Special:WhatLinksHere panics when it can't find the namespace. I think I've encountered this problem once in the past, and solved it by inspecting the database dump to find the phantom pages. (I believe I had to ask Wikia Staff to do something special to delete them.)

Normally, the links would have also appeared on Special:BrokenRedirects, but perhaps it also can't handle links to disabled namespaces.


 * I'm unsure what the story with the "Head of State" link is, however.

The Head of State link was recently removed.