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VisualEditor: valid links are redlinked in the link inspector
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Description

The link inspector shows valid links as red in the autocomplete function. This is potentially very disruptive and confusing for editors, new and old alike, who pattern-match 'red' to 'this page does not exist'.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz49540

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:47 AM
bzimport added a project: VisualEditor.
bzimport set Reference to bz49540.

Yes, this is specifically that it's filtering out redirects in its suggestions (good) but then assuming that if it's not a non-redirect, it doesn't exist (bad). We'll get this fixed.

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 49502 ***