azatoth/twinkle — Issue #83: Devious users can use talk-page redirects to amplify vandalism
Author: CoJaBo
Created: 2012-01-28 00:22:42+00:00
State: open

See the contributions by the vandal and me starting 23:28, 27 January 2012-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/85.222.98.50
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/CoJaBo

The gist of it is that the user vandalized my talk page, then proceeded to redirect his own talk page to the article on Testicles-
When I attempted to use the "Warn User" feature shortly thereafter, the warning was posted to that article instead, causing more headaches.

Clearly it shouldn't be doing this, but I'm not sure what it *should* do- is it even necessary to post warnings to redirects at all, I don't see much use for this?
If there is a reason for that, there should probably be some warning or other safeguard when this happens, and at the very least I don't think TW should ever proceed to follow cross-namespace redirects.
In the case where the edit needs to go the the source page and not the redirect target, presumably, it could either replace the redirect with the warning or simply error out and leave the fix to be done manually.