MediaWiki talk:Badtitletext

message: Wikipedia entry gives general information about Wikipedia so I entered Wikipedia: hoping for a list of items in the Wikipedia: space, but it results in this page. I am looking to sort out the situation where Covenant (theology) info got deleted and the page now redirects to Covenant Theology which contains theological information about covenants from the perspective of a subset of Christianity.
:If you want all pages in the Wikipedia namespace, go here.  This makes use of Special:Prefixindex.  --lE☺N2323 13:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia:

message: There seems to be some kind of article writing bug relating to the 'Bad Title' error page, when you search for a bad title (e.g. %20) and it says you can edit it, something that needs fixing? - Lep.
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The page Bad title has been created and protected to avoid recreation, due to a bug in the MediaWiki software.  Note to administrators - please do not delete until the bug is fixed. – ABCD 14:14, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still possible to get to this page, for example with .  dbenbenn | talk 29 June 2005 01:25 (UTC)
Hy, I found a strange page that appears as Ä¹¦ç»� in :Category:China (the last link). I can't get thre and check what it is about. gbog July 3, 2005 04:17 (UTC)
You can get Bad title from  which is a link from Special:Whatlinkshere/Panathinaikos_FC: someone will eventually delete the redirect page, but there may be similar cases. --Henrygb 22:00, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

text: On H*R, if you start a page with Wikipedia: they've got it configured to transwii it to here, but that is a Bad Title because it has a colon (:) in the name.  -- xaosflux Talk/CVU 23:01, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bug

message: Otherwise it just looks like a bad entry, doesn't it?  Citizen Premier
:This page exists because the software sends people here. It shouldn't, but since it does (see above), there needs to be a page telling people something has gone wrong. --Henrygb 21:46, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If we move this page to Wikipedia:Bad title, but leave the redirect in place, it should, in theory, still work. - SimonP 18:55, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I tested it, and it actually seems like this page is no longer needed at all. The error message does not actually display the text in this page, rather it displays MediaWiki:Badtitletext. - SimonP 19:09, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Which is sad, because it makes it hard to reach this talk page and record the error --Henrygb 22:00, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it still seems to pretend to be here. Click here and you can see that while the page itself isn't displayed, the discussion, history, etc. are all for this page. - SimonP 22:31, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You seem to be right on the ugly Monobook skin - but it is no longer true on Classic --Henrygb 00:19, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shouldn't this be Wikipedia:Bad title 

message: * Posted: bugzilla:03970 – PAGENAME "bad title" in different namespaces
* Regards Gangleri | [ Th] | T 09:19, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[bugzilla:03970]] 

message: I want make a redirect :  (or |)=> Vertical_bar . thanks Yug
Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28technical_restrictions%29#Characters_not_allowed_at_all_in_page_titles says you cannot.  But you could try ¦, | or | in the article. The first of these (based on ¦) goes to Pipe (computing) while the other two using vertical bars for piped links go to Vertical_bar.  For some reason http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/| (using a little unicode) is seen as &.--Henrygb 20:40, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page [[|]] 

message: I've protected this page as a pseudo MediaWiki: page. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection 

message: Is this actually a psuedo-MediaWiki page?  Quite an oversight to have this exist outside the MediaWiki: namespace. Kevin_b_er 04:01, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. In fact, it's a bug. The true page is at MediaWiki:Badtitletext. --cesarb 04:25, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pseduo-wikimedia page 

message: and ended up here?
this should link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page
Bigdan201 01:44, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  We obviously want Create article to be protected, because of this, but if someone is typing "create article" into the search box, they're obviously either a newbie trying to create a new article, or just someone curious as to what's at that location.  We usually want to avoid cross-namespace redirects, so I would recommend making a soft redirect to Help:Starting_a_new_page.  Subpage is an example of a similar soft redirect.  Dave6 20:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  i typed in "create article" 

message: Sometimes when a new page has been created, and is visible in the recent changes, clicking on it links here even if the page exists, making it difficult to know whether the page has been deleted already or not.  Presumably this is caused by different databases updating at different times.  Would it be possible (and also would it be useful?) to add a link to the page history and deletion log? —Snigbrook 20:38, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible to link to history/deletion log? 

message: Click here to see my requested minor edit. -- IRP ☎ 16:40, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: . — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:19, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested correction 

message: Can we change the link under "unsupported characters" from Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions) to Help:Page name#Invalid page names? The latter seems to give a more comprehensive treatement now.--Kotniski (talk) 09:07, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually that should perhaps refer to MediaWiki:Badtitletext, not this page (why do we have both pages anyway - what is the "bug in MediaWiki" that requires this one to exist?)--Kotniski (talk) 09:10, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Done I too am not sure of the issue or the reason that we need to keep this page. - Rjd0060 (talk) 18:11, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I'll ask at the VPT.--Kotniski (talk) 18:28, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested change

message: The link to Help:Page name#Invalid page names is no longer useful. The best target seems to be Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions), or possibly the short version at Wikipedia:Page name#Invalid page names. Algebraist 00:56, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the short version, which has a link to the longer version. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:49, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link 

message: Hello.
We should use  to remove the inaccurate external link icons from the internal links on this MediaWiki page. Please respond with your feedback. Thank you. 75.53.212.159 (talk) 00:11, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: , seems uncontroversial and useful - Hoo man (talk) 13:29, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internal links 

message: Where is that tab? The error page itself is a special page and does not have one, the special tab links to the faulty page again. --194.118.198.243 (talk) 08:16, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes indeed, please remove "If you tried to access a non-local interwiki page, you may be able to access that page by clicking the "article" tab on this page." from the message. — This, that and the other (talk) 01:33, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article tab 

message: Please remove "* an attempt to follow a link to a diff for a page that has since been deleted;" since this message is not displayed in that case (rather, MediaWiki:Difference-missing-revision is).
Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:35, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Done --Redrose64 (talk) 22:26, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 15 April 2014 

message: Per Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 140#Incorrect appearance of badtitletext, can we change this to the following please?
The requested page title is invalid. It may be empty, contain unsupported characters, or include a non-local or incorrectly linked interwiki prefix. You may be able to locate the desired page by searching for its name (with the interwiki prefix, if any) in the search box.
Possible causes are:
* an attempt to load a URL such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/| (the | character is not permitted in page titles);
* an attempt to load a deleted page with a "curid=" in the URL - please check the deletion log to see if this is the case.
* an attempt to load a URL pointing to a "non-local" interwiki page (usually those not run by the Wikimedia Foundation). For example, the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/meatball:WikiPedia will give this error, because the "meatball:" interwiki prefix is not marked as local in the interwiki table. Certain interwiki prefixes are marked as local in the table. For example, the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/meta:Main_page can be used to load meta:Main_page. All interlanguage prefixes are marked as local, and thus URLs such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Accueil will work as expected. However, non-local interwiki pages can still be accessed by interwiki linking or by entering them in the search box. For example meatball:WikiPedia can be used on a page, like this: meatball:WikiPedia.
Mdann52 (talk) 15:29, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn't it be better to fix the bug in MediaWiki rather than adding a workaround here? This sounds like an oversight that will probably be cleared up quite quickly if it is brought to the attention of the devs. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 23:25, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

text: Disabled for now. Perhaps continue the discussion at VPT? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:14, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 22 September 2015 

message: Please remove the displayed text after the space from and add https: to the beginning of the external links to other Wikipedia pages. Wikipedia switched to https as of June 12, 2015.
GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 04:31, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 15:07, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 21 November 2015 

message: Why is Special:Badtitle a red link? Red links are pages that don't exist, but apparently Special:Badtitle does exist. If it doesn't exist, clicking on it should say "No such special page." But it doesn't, so what's going on? Gioguch (talk) 15:41, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is a bug, see phab:T262959. — xaosflux Talk 17:59, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red link 

message: Please tag the redirect  with the following as it seems pertinent by replacing the page with the following:
#REDIRECT MediaWiki:Badtitletext

Thanks! Steel1943 (talk) 21:03, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Izno (talk) 22:21, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 20 June 2023