Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5907266-20160128170738/@comment-24473195-20160202120437

Indeed, only users with the delete right can "remove" content. A regular user can't do that anyway.

"I'd also very much love it if it wouldn't search the forums or user profiles for links to claim a page is wanted."

There is a technical limitation. Wikia doesn't have the latest MediaWiki version and as such they can't randomly change the content model of pages, which would prevent this. That's why stuff like Lua modules also spew out a lot of these "wanted pages".

As far as I can tell from my readings of the mediawiki manuals, there is a link table that is maintained for every content page, which is needed for caching and performance reasons. This infrastructure is used to determine red vs blue links and to update them whenever they change, it is also the reason why the wanted pages is populated with those links.

Edit: In other words, for link related issues you are better off requesting Wikimedia to solve it, since they are in fact the ones who created the problem in the first place, and they probably have better ideas to fix it than Wikia staff.