Forum:Broken Links on User, Talk, and Forum Pages

So the other day, I realized how useless Category:Pages with broken file links is due to all of the user and talk pages listed on the page. With all of these pages listed on there, it becomes difficult to see when actual articles have broken links on them. I had the idea to create a template that can be put in place of the broken links on user and talk pages so that the names/destinations of the broken links can still be displayed on the page, but they can be removed from the Broken Links category. When I talked to Sff about this idea, our genderless god also showed me this page, who directed me to this list of more broken links: Special:Wantedpages which contains over 1000 different links that broken, not including the several pages that may use the links. (Many are the Wikia-added "Thanks for editing the page "____"" for pages that were deleted/added as vandalism.)

Sff and I worked on creating a template NoPic that can replace broken file links (so images only, not regular links). The template takes the name of the file and lists it in a way so that it is not a link, so we can still see the file name that was there, but we can actually use the broken file links category to see real problems. It uses the notation . Example of the template in use:

The main problem with this template, is that in order to replace the links, we would have to make an exception to the rule "Never edit another user's page or post." I think we should allow this rule to be broken in cases that are tied to formatting of the wikia. So, that would include broken links and a few other things that affect how the page is. So if I made a link like this: Monket D. Luffy in a forum, it can be corrected by other users if I miss it.

Also, if I made a box like this by accident in a forum, it could be corrected too.

In short, I think these problems could easily be fixed, we just need the approval of the wikia in order to "bend the rules a bit" first. 23:54, November 13, 2012 (UTC)