Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24264457-20180731121033

I know it’s not a new feature, but part of it has been causing my community some issues lately. The part I have the biggest issue with is the wanted pages section. Some days, it works just fine and says we have either none or a few that are just links to categories that have pages in them, just no other content. But most of the time it says we have 500-something wanted pages. The first few are legit, like if a redirect is deleted and it turned out it was used more than previously thought. But once you get past, I’m gonna be generous here and say, the first page, it’s all little things that only have one or two links to them. Seems like a non-issue until I started digging through them and saw that all of them are all nonsense or typos of existing articles from the following:
 * Blogs
 * Comments
 * Forum posts (some nonsense, some debates on whether something should be deleted)
 * Removed forum posts
 * Message Walls
 * “Can you delete this” messages
 * “Why did you create this” messages
 * “Welcome to the Wiki… thanks for editing this” messages on the walls of trolls
 * Archived talk pages

The list goes on and on. But lately someone has been creating these pages, not as redirects, but as actually duplicating the existing pages on the wiki, or for the nonsense ones filling it up with stub or “please add content” templates. This user has been warned multiple times and blocked once already which is kinda sad because I think they believe they’re making good-faith edits. My point is, shouldn’t the wanted pages only apply to main space articles and not blogs, forums, etc.? It would cut down on confusion and not bury legitimate needed articles.

And another insight with a similar issue is the “pages without infobox” one, which has 570-something pages in it and 99% of them are redirects. 