Editing Encyclopedia:Special pages bug reports (section)

== Orphans ==

'''"Orphans" page isn't completely correct'''

For instance, Godfrey_Reggio is not and never has been an orphan page; it was created long after the article for his documentary ''Koyaanisqatsi''.  Similar issue with other articles listed.

I've noticed that "Orphans" gets confused by whether a title contains spaces or underscores between its words.  

If an article is created with underscores, but all the links to it have spaces, then it
is listed as an orphan.  I've noticed that in the URLs, the strings "%20", "_", and "+" can be 
used interchangeably.  "Orphans" should be updated to treat all three the same.

Also, pages that could be usefully listed as Orphans are not, e.g.,
"Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication" is not
listed, presumably becaused "SWIFT" redirects to it.  However nothing
links to SWIFT and it looks like redirections are not counted as
Orphans.
:This should be fixed if the proposed Islands page (showing all pages unreachable from [[Main Page]]) is implemented.

For some time I've noticed that the year pages for 803 to 809 keep appearing on the orphan list.  Yet when I go there and check out the links they do have links, even if only to each other.  Maybe somebody with a better understanding of the site's innards can have a look at this. --[[user:Eclecticology|Eclecticology]], Wednesday, June 5, 2002