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Special:Unusedtemplates should not list redirects
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Author: mcdevitd

Description:
[[Special:Unusedtemplates]] currently lists unused redirects in the template
namespace, which clogs the listing and makes it less useful. For instance, in
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Unusedtemplates,
[[Template:ActiveWiktionaries]] is included, while its target *is* used. There
is no need for any redirects to be listed at all.


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bz8157

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:31 PM
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Would it not be better if Redirects were wrapped with a CSS-class <span/> like on
Special:Allpages?

Then users could format or inhibit them as they wished, and it would make it easier to
spot redundant template-redirects for culling...

webboy wrote:

Patch to exclude redirects

Attached:

Better late than never, r31841.

Note that I've not implemented the suggestions of a span / url parameter. I don't think that it is at all useful for anyone to see redirects as unused templates - at least not on the same page as other unused templates.