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^ Thanks, will P.M. others about this in the future (unless it's on an Index page, see below).
^^ O, in that case it's better to remove them I guess! Because if someone creates the work page and sees the movie already on the Index page, they won't know it not showing up in the actual Index, so won't add the work (again) to the Index. Good to know.
Edited by LB7979It's not so much that they will have to be added again as the index needs to be edited again (even if it's just a null edit) to register that the page now exists. This should be done by whoever creates the page, but in the worst case, if the redlink already existed the next time someone edits the index for any reason it will register as not red anymore.
I've seen it recommended NOT to leave red links in indexes, because it breaks the index linking for "next page" and "previous page" clicks, forcing the user to go back to the index page.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.^^ I remember that. But yeah, it's been fixed.
There are still at least three problems with redlinks on indexes, though.
One is updating, which was mentioned above.
Two is what happens when the page gets turned into a redirect instead of a regular page. Which, I can say from experience, can be quite annoying under the right (wrong?) circumstances.
Three is what happens when you have an example like:
Where Anne Author is a blue link. Then someone else comes along and decides to unlink My Book, and now Anne Author is indexed...So, overall, even though I'm generally very pro-redlink, I prefer not to have them on indexes. (Unless the index entries include context.)
Edited by Xtifr Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.The problem of the author's name getting added to the index when it's a valid secondary link on a redlinked work page is known, but there's no workaround other than not bluelinking the author, or wrapping the entry in [noindex] tags.
The problem of redirects causing erroneous behavior on indexes will be fixed in the 1.8 redesign. Instead, they'll be ignored entirely.
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Someone removed entries from an index that were red links because the films exist but don't have a Tvtropes page yet. AFAIK it's o.k. or even encouraged to have those kind of red links, because it might encourage people to make pages for those works, right? Should I P.M. them that?