links from user pages are included in special:wantedpages
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	Hdicu
	Jan 21 2025, 2:24 PM

Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

link to nonexistent page from your user page
look at Special:WantedPages/Categories/Templates

What happens?:
the page is shown here

What should have happened instead?:
it shouldn't be there

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
Product Version
MediaWiki 1.41.1 (a377df7)
20:31, 17 January 2025
PHP 8.2.27 (fpm-fcgi)
ICU 72.1
MySQL 8.0.31-google
wikidiff2 1.14.1
LuaSandbox 4.1.2
Lua 5.1.5
Pygments 2.17.2
Elasticsearch 7.10.2

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open	Feature	None	T7578 Wantedpages and namespace:0
		Open	BUG REPORT	None	T384325 links from user pages are included in special:wantedpages

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Hdicu created this task.Jan 21 2025, 2:24 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJan 21 2025, 2:24 PM

Why shouldn't it be there?

They spam it and make it harder to view actual results. See for example this. Most of them are from user pages and you can do nothing for them

Hdicu updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 21 2025, 4:30 PM

✅ This feature seems to be working as intended. ⛲

You might want to filter [[Special:WantedPages]] for links from particular namespaces. But by default, it should cover all namespaces.

Bugreporter2 awarded a token.Feb 6 2025, 2:52 PM

Pppery added a parent task: T7578: Wantedpages and namespace:0.Sun, May 18, 3:02 AM

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