Editing Encyclopedia:Special pages bug reports (section)

== Stub articles ==

I've run into a couple of odd problems while browsing through the stub articles pages. Firstly, there's an article with bold tags in its title that is messing up the table on

http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/special%3AShortPages&startat=241&showLinksThere=0

The article in question is  displayed as 241(16 chars) <nowiki>[[</nowiki>'''devotchka'''|Bdevotchka/b<nowiki>]]</nowiki>, if people have been cleaning up stub articles since I posted this it may be earlier in the listing. Its row in the table appears to be mixed in with the subsequent row in the table, and afterward the columns of the table are misaligned. It also destroys the link at the bottom of the table leading to the next larger set of short articles.

:Found another example: 385(27 chars) <nowiki>[[</nowiki>Upload/loa1[1].jpg|Upload/loa11.jpg<nowiki>]]</nowiki> also screws up the table, and doesn't appear to exist.

::I have deleted the articles in question (relics of long-fixed search page and title bugs), so it should be gone from the list now. The table screwup problem is due to a more recent bug (see top of this page) with links with bad titles, which has been fixed in the code but not yet installed. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]

Secondly, there are a whole bunch of articles listed as having a length of 27 characters which don't appear to exist at all. For some examples, see here:

http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/special%3AShortPages&startat=321&showLinksThere=0

When I click on these links, I go straight into edit mode as if they were new. I believe that the 27 characters the stub finder claims these articles to have are "Describe the new page here." [[user:Bryan Derksen|Bryan Derksen]]

:That seems to be a feature: a page that somebody saved without actually editing anything (and thus containing only the new-page message) comes up in edit mode. On the other hand, we probably shouldn't actually save a page that contains only the new-page message. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Saturday, April 6, 2002