Beyond the Impossible appears as a Red Link.

For some reason, Beyond the Impossible is showing up as a Red Link, even though it's an existing article.

That's a quirk of the new redlinker thingy. Sandbox.Beyond The Impossible was cut yesterday, so all links to Beyond the Impossible (in any namespace) turned red. It's easily fixed through editing any BTI page, which tells the redlink thing that you've created the page again.

Conversely, now that it's blue again, all BTI pages in all namespaces show bluelinks, even if they don't exist.

So it's a bug - a link should only be red if there are no namespaces containing that page name. Otherwise, blue.

Is this also the same case for pages such as Nothing Is Scarier (which makes it really creepy) and Gratuitous English?

edited 16th Jan '14 2:20:43 AM by totlmstr

Yes.

• Tropers.Lady Momus
• Torpers.Lady Momus
• NonexistentNamespace.Lady Momus
• AnythingWillGetABlueLinkAsLongAsAPageExistsInSomeNamespaceSomewhere.Lady Momus

Huh. That explains why I suddenly seemed to never make typos while moving wicks ...

I try to doublecheck things, but when namespacing the main thing I check is whether a link is blue or red. I assumed some pages had already been namespaced because they were showing up as blue links, when they were really still on Main/.

I know I changed at least a few links to the namespaced version before the page was moved. It's also possible I misspelled some namespaces without realizing it.

I guess I'll have to check every wick I change by clicking on it until the bug is fixed.

If there is an official list of namespaces, then the blue/redlinker should know it and anything with an invalid namespace (i.e. you can't actually create a page for it) should be red.

That would depend on the page creation overhaul that Eddie has had on the back burner for a while.