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I've been using your Link Count tool for some years now and it has been proven to be instrumental for my activities here. I use it in my software to resolve a biography article's 'notability'. However, there's one issue that interferes with that: the tool also counts wiki links stated in a template in an article as incoming links to that article. Example: [[Kudrat Singh]]: [[https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Kudrat%20Singh&namespaces=0| the link count]] = 680! Reason: the [[Template:Padma Shri Award Recipients in Art|template]] in the article accounts for almost all the links making Kudrat much more important in my app than he actually is. Is this a feature or a bug? And if the latter: can/will it be fixed? Cheers, [[User:Mill 1|Mill 1]] ([[User talk:Mill 1|talk]]) 08:35, 15 October 2023 (UTC) |
I've been using your Link Count tool for some years now and it has been proven to be instrumental for my activities here. I use it in my software to resolve a biography article's 'notability'. However, there's one issue that interferes with that: the tool also counts wiki links stated in a template in an article as incoming links to that article. Example: [[Kudrat Singh]]: [[https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Kudrat%20Singh&namespaces=0| the link count]] = 680! Reason: the [[Template:Padma Shri Award Recipients in Art|template]] in the article accounts for almost all the links making Kudrat much more important in my app than he actually is. Is this a feature or a bug? And if the latter: can/will it be fixed? Cheers, [[User:Mill 1|Mill 1]] ([[User talk:Mill 1|talk]]) 08:35, 15 October 2023 (UTC) |
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:It's a feature. Use search if you want to get direct links, e.g. {{search link|linksto:"Kudrat Singh" insource:"Kudrat Singh"}} or {{search link|linksto:"Kudrat Singh" insource:/\[\[Kudrat[ _]Singh[\{{!}}\]]/}}. [[User:Nardog|Nardog]] ([[User talk:Nardog|talk]]) 09:01, 15 October 2023 (UTC) |
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Link Count tool also counts template wiki links
Hi BrandonXLF,
I've been using your Link Count tool for some years now and it has been proven to be instrumental for my activities here. I use it in my software to resolve a biography article's 'notability'. However, there's one issue that interferes with that: the tool also counts wiki links stated in a template in an article as incoming links to that article. Example: Kudrat Singh: [the link count] = 680! Reason: the template in the article accounts for almost all the links making Kudrat much more important in my app than he actually is. Is this a feature or a bug? And if the latter: can/will it be fixed? Cheers, Mill 1 (talk) 08:35, 15 October 2023 (UTC)