Redirect page with additional normal wikilinks shows up as redirect on every linked page's "what links here?"
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	adrianheine
	Feb 8 2008, 2:47 PM

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A page like

#REDIRECT [[bar]]

'''This''' is a [[foo]].

is shown as a redirect on foo's What links here.

Version: 1.12.x
Severity: minor

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Reference: bz12971

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adrianheine created this task.Feb 8 2008, 2:47 PM

The issue is visible at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Linkliste/Eiwei%C3%9F with http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hauptzelle&redirect=no

I assume we want it not to get listed on Whatlinkshere/Foo at all, right?

(In reply to comment #2)

I assume we want it not to get listed on Whatlinkshere/Foo at all, right?

or as a normal link, I'm not sure about that.

cbm.wikipedia wrote:

The backlink should not be listed at all - if A is a redirect to B, and A happens to also link to C, and D links to A, that does not mean that D links to C in any way. It might make slight sense to think of D linking to B (skipping the redirect), but not to C.

This issue is visible on enwiki in

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Nobots&limit=500&from=0

(look for User talk:Politics rule).

It also shows up because of pages like

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hedyscepe&redirect=no

which link to [[en:Taxon]] via a redirect sorting template. The backlinks for Taxon show numerous examples of the problem.