User blog comment:BertH/New Forums now available in Labs/@comment-188432-20121205161710

The forums don't play nicely with Special:WhatLinksHere.

In the picture at right, I'm looking at the WLH list for a newly-deleted template. The last entry is the mention made at Tardis:Thread:117388. But when you click on it, you get a "page doesn't exist" error.

I thought at first this might be a problem with "WhatLinksHere-ing" a redlink. But, no, it's happening with any link made in a thread. For instance if you go to tardis:Special:WhatLinksHere/T:ILL, neither of the two "Board Thread" links work.

This is problematic to anyone wishing to maintain their wiki well, because it means that they can't perform easy manual unlinking of deleted or moved pages.