Alright, making a post for anyone who wants to do redirect cleanup.
Some of our pages with tons of subpages smack headfirst into a page recursion peculiarity of MediaWiki, specifically how our template for subpages works. For instance:
Harry_Potter/Epilogue/Headscratchers is the correct page, but Harry Potter/Epilogue is expected to go before it. Since it doesn't exist, it begs for a link that isn't there but it expects by MediaWiki's page recursion rules.
The solution is more a hackjob but it works: redirect the phantom link to the real one. The real one will show up right next to the redirected one in the template, but it cleans up the wanted pages of phantom links, which is an ugly fix, but regrettably necessary. That, or create a proper page with links to further subpages if need be.
Some of our pages with tons of subpages smack headfirst into a page recursion peculiarity of MediaWiki, specifically how our template for subpages works. For instance:
Harry_Potter/Epilogue/Headscratchers is the correct page, but Harry Potter/Epilogue is expected to go before it. Since it doesn't exist, it begs for a link that isn't there but it expects by MediaWiki's page recursion rules.
The solution is more a hackjob but it works: redirect the phantom link to the real one. The real one will show up right next to the redirected one in the template, but it cleans up the wanted pages of phantom links, which is an ugly fix, but regrettably necessary. That, or create a proper page with links to further subpages if need be.