Image redirects are not "wanted files" - the files exist and are in-use but are listed on the wanted files list.
Since page redirects do not appear on Special:WantedPages, the behavior should be the same for Special:WantedFiles.
Version: 1.18.x
Severity: normal
URL: http://www.ssbwiki.com/Special:WantedFiles
EN.WP.ST47 wrote:
Doesn't the fact that all of those are crossed out mean that there only there because the special page is cached? They certainly shouldn't be there, but once that page is updated I suspect they will disappear.
I just ran updateSpecialPages to make sure, but there was no change. Many of the images were moved some time ago but remain on the list.
For example, here is the history of the first image on the list which was moved in December 2010: http://www.ssbwiki.com/index.php?title=File:FalcoHead.png&action=history
EN.WP.ST47 wrote:
Ahh. Yeah, this can be done but it complicates the query considerably. The query only currently joins two tables (image and imagelinks) and incorporating redirect-finding would require to join image again, as well as page and redirect, which makes the query complicated and slow. The special page is able to detect and cross out false positives, I wonder why it can't simply remove them. Either way, marking confirmed.
rd232 wrote:
Isn't this Bug 21350 - Broken redirect pages in the File ns are not "Wanted files"?
Pages using the redirected images are also displayed on the tracking categories such as [[Category:Pages with broken file links]].
And I believe this and bug 21350 are the same.