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Should not be possible to restore links which does not exist
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If a link is deleted from the item, and the same link (=page) is deleted on Wikipedia, it should not be possible to restore those links to the item.

E.g. at https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q14565806&action=history I reverted edit where was deleted one sitelink. But then I noticed that the article was deleted on Wikipedia. This should be make to be impossible.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:51 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseClient.
• bzimport set Reference to bz52942.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
Stryn created this task.Aug 16 2013, 6:39 PM
Denny added a comment.Sep 23 2013, 10:34 AM

This would require us to check too much in the moment a restore is being done (we already check too much). The idea of "restoring" a revision means to restore it to the version it was, not to reapply it and see which of it fits. This seems very counterintuitive.

Ricordisamoa added a comment.Dec 9 2013, 3:30 PM

Wouldn't a simple notice/warning do the job?

Lydia_Pintscher added a comment.Dec 9 2013, 3:54 PM

We'd still need to do that checks for that though of which Denny said we are already doing too many :(

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