Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-1519608-20150528051312

I've been looking at The Sims Wiki's list of wanted pages (pages that are referred to elsewhere on the wiki, but that don't exist) and trying to reduce the length of the list. I've noticed that we have a template that checks whether a given page exists and, if it does, includes a link to that page. The problem is, that template uses the #ifexist parser function. There is a long-standing bug/feature in MediaWiki, where a page that is "looked for" by #ifexist is counted as a wanted page. My searches on the matter show that the bug is still around and is pretty much a permanent part of MediaWiki. So, I'm curious if anyone else who has encountered this problem has devised some sort of work-around? Specifically, I'm looking for something that functions as #ifexist does without generating an entry on Special:WantedPages.

My apologies if this has already been addressed elsewhere. Thanks for any help you may provide. 