Circular Links

Today's most recent example was The Un-Twist linking to Null Subversion:

That is, instead of a Double Subversion, it's a Null Subversion.

I was thinking Null Subversion would be a supertrope perhaps, but no, it's the same page.

Now that's different. A redirect exists because the different names are useful. That's why my tech solution would work. Just replace it with a non link that is still styled differently than the text.

Heck, you could do it manually, if people would agree to it.

I agree that these are annoying and if I see any that aren't the exceptions already listed, I will kill them with fire. I think this was one of the first things I asked about when I originally came here, but it's still happening.

Another problem is with a show such as Word Girl where the show title is a Wiki Word. I had to go through that entire article a while back and kill all the circular links to WordGirl. My guess is that more have probably cropped up since I last did it.

I don't suppose there would be any way to create a filter so that this simply wouldn't be possible? I think on Wikia if you try to link an article to itself, it won't work. It won't appear as a link.

edited 26th Feb '11 5:31:33 PM by Agent0042

On Media Wiki circular links get bolded instead of made into a link.

We can just do that manually.

Found one that really bothers me:

Internalized Categorism

It lists specific subtropes. Two of them are tropes. The other five are redirects to the same page (because they're Internal Subtropes).

Would it be okay if I just kill the wikilinks on the latter five?

edited 2nd Apr '11 1:26:31 PM by Yamikuronue