Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-9605025-20180101213424/@comment-9605025-20180106080606

I know. What I am saying is that it has been. When I resolve a redlink on something like and article, blog, or forum post, that page is always removed from Special:WhatLinksHere and the link count goes down within 24 hours. However, this is not the case with pages that use #ask. Such pages have stayed on Special:WhatLinksHere for months and the link count on Special:WantedPages doesn't go down.

For example, lets say I create PageA in Category:TestPages. I then link to it on PageB, PageC, and PageD. I then use #ask to list pages in Category:TestPages on PageE and PageF. I am generous so I let it sit for a week. I then delete PageA. Let it sit for a week. Assuming the article pages haven't been purged yet, Special:WantedPages would tell me there are 5 links to PageA and Special:WhatLinksHere would link to pages B-F. Now I remove the links from pages B-D and purge PageE and PageF such that they no longer try to link to PageA. I am still a generous user so I let it sit for a week. Now Special:WantedPages says there are two links to PageA. When I check Special:WhatLinksHere, it says that PageE and PageF still link to PageA.

So, what I am trying to say is that I know for sure the page updates every 24 hours as it should. The problem is that pages using #ask seem to not get caught in those updates.