Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24253265-20160713052631/@comment-24473195-20160713092657

This is something that also used to bug me. My suggestion is that you don't worry too much about the reports, just clean them up slowly, or ignore them if they don't really have any impact in the wiki. Also note that even when you do clean them up, some of these take at least a day before they are removed from cache, and stop showing up in the reports.

There are many reasons for these. They could be created by misguided templates, by lua modules, by Interface messages, by javascript in the wrong namespace, and by random users typing links in discussions and so forth.

Anyway,  my hate of these deadlinks and "ghost pages" resulted in the Linksweeper. It makes cleaning them up very quick and effective. So much so that ALL the "wanted pages" in my home wiki are truly wanted pages, and whenever one shows up that isn't wanted, it is very easy to clean up. You'll need to make some changes to clean up uncategorized pages (see the linked page).