Forum:Wantedpages list problem on wiki

On at least one Wikia there is a problem with the special:wantedpages special page, and I think I vaguely remember something on another Wikia with the same problem before the wantedpages list became excessively large. In fact, there may be many wikis with a similar problem, I just don't look on them too much.

The problem is that, some time ago (before I even knew what a "wiki" was) vandals vandalised some wiki pages by moving them. I'll give an example from the first linked Wikia in the topic: "Jedi" was moved to "Jedi NIGGA". Now, long after the vandal was blocked and the moves reverted, the links still stay on the wantedpages list saying that there is one link to the page, yet there quite clearly isn't, even by looking at the whatlinkshere special page.

I don't know what the problem is exactly, it might be something to do with the special page caches but I'm not sure. Thank you if you can be bothered to read this topic and answer this problem. 20:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I have seen that same problem, one time in Dofus wikia, and i assume something to do with history since then i avoid adding links to the summaries, dont know if that is related, as the pages where the links are display are in the logs, in the history files, and the recent changes (thought when it goes over 1000 articles it disappears from RC) and the user I have not check our wanted pages but if you want you can try removing the vandal movement from the page jedi and see if it makes it disapear at least you will confirm if its special page history related. --Cizagna (Talk) 03:56, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The lazy solution at wikimedia I believe, was to lower the wanted threshhold to 2 or 3, thereby making such pages not show. --Splarka (talk) 06:17, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * But sysops cant do that right? is mediawiki aware of this? are they playing to resolve it or they just left it to the same lazy solution?--Cizagna (Talk) 14:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I think so... . --Splarka (talk) 06:26, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Update: Okay, well after deleting a page called "Main Page on Wheels" and waiting for the cache to update, the page has been added to the list of wanted pages, so it's something to do with the links. However, in the case of page moves, you can't help adding the links as it's automatic. So… is there a solution? 20:49, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Over on the RuneScape Wiki we made a page called "No page" and redirected all those pages there.--Richard (Talk - Contribs) 01:47, 27 May 2007 (UTC)