Thread:NoWayThisUsernameIsAlreadyOwnedBySomeone/@comment-26208725-20150731102952/@comment-26143371-20150731115213

When was the Patty and Selma dialogues glitch fixed?

I actually can't say when that was fixed, but I have means to find it out. But to do so is a little but complicated and I'd like to do that in combination with another item on my ToDo list, namely creating a complete change-log page. I'll find it out, but please don't expect it to happen too soon. And I expect/fear there might be another major event before THOH.

Starting by, we're supposed to have pages named after their in-game name, but a majority of characters pages aren't following that rule. Should I rename the pages? That would be appreciated! When you do so you should pay attention to the following things:
 * Make sure that "Leave a redirect behind" is enabled. Otherwise you'll have to deal with tons of broken links and external links or bookmarks won't work anymore either
 * Even when you leave redirects there might come up a few cases where a redirect redirects to another redirect. This isn't handled very well by MediaWiki software (simply showing the second redirect instead of auto-redirecting). You can see those pages in Special:DoubleRedirects. Usually the first entry has to be edited and redirected to the third one. Luckily it just coincides that there are two entries again (I corrected all of them a while ago), so you can see how it looks like. Be aware that the content there is only updated ever 24 hours, so you might need to wait a day until you see anything new there.
 * If you want you can also check Special:BrokenRedirects every once and then. However nothing should get there when you always leave redirects.
 * If you want to see the pages redirecting to the current one you can use Special:Whatlinkshere. You can easily access that for the current page via the "My tools" menu in the yellow bar at the bottom. If it doesn't show up there, you can add it with the "customize" button. On the page it is best to select to show 500 entries if necessary. You can then use your browser's search functionality to find the word "redirect".

I bet there's a lot of these. What do I need to do in that case? That are the ones that will end in a double redirect. you can either ignore them and correct them if something show up on Special:DoubleRedirects or you can search them every time and correct them right away. Personally I would do the first thing, I don't think it is much of a problem if the few persons that actually use that link need to do an additional click until the affected pages show up as double redirects. A lot of the ones I corrected were probably there for months or even years!

2nd, I'd delete the "Rod" page. I'm not sure if it is actually necessary, you'd have to try out if it works without prior deletion. Agreed with the rest!

@FauxCerf 1st, on the existing page, eg: "Rod Flanders", the original name is showing somewhere in the page (without the template). You mean to searching for the name written as plain text and replacing it with ?

By the way, I'm worried about you. FauxCerf told me more than once that contributing with new stuff was such a pain for him, so since you're doing the same, I was worried about you. I'm fine, but thanks! Adding new content can be a pain sometimes, especially for major events with "non-standard" content or when I have to dig through localization files.