It would be very practical if the list of pages which links to a page which is being deleted could be displayed for admins when using "action=delete". This would help to fix the existent links on those pages (and to double-check if the page should really be deleted).
Each subpage item could have a link to edit them such as:
This request is similar to Bug #30666.
Version: 1.20.x
Severity: enhancement
beau wrote:
There is already a gadget which fetches first 10 links to a deleted page and its 5 most recent history entries.
As a workaround you can use that: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specjalna:Gad%C5%BCety/export/delete
MediaWiki:Deleting-backlinks-warning has a link to Special:WhatLinksHere if that is what you're looking for.
Actually, my request was to show the list in the page itself instead of adding a link to another page. In other words, something similar to what was done for bug 16762 on r47469.