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Before we begin - yes, a sysop can ask for help here... right?

Anyways, I am getting bugged and irritated by the crossed out but irremovable entries seen at Special:BrokenRedirects. Does anyone know what the heck these things are?

Below are the list entries that just won't go away even though they are supposedly "fixed":

  1. :Doodle Simmer/toplist-item-4dcc2e4d6003d
  2. :Doodle Simmer/toplist-item-4dcc2e4d60824
  3. :Doodle Simmer/toplist-item-4dcc2e4d60e6c
  4. :Doodle Simmer/toplist-item-4dcc2e4d61c99
  5. :Doodle Simmer/toplist-item-4dcc2e4d62742
  6. :Doodle Simmer/toplist-item-4dcc2e4d62f48
  7. :Doodle Simmer/toplist-item-4dcc2e4d63fcc
  8. :Doodle Simmer/toplist-item-4dcc2e4d67331
  9. :Doodle Simmer/toplist-item-4dcc2e4d6796d
  10. :Doodle Simmer/toplist-item-4dcc2e4d67ee8
  11. :What Must The Next The Sims 3 Expansion Pack Should Include?/toplist-item-4d0de0e80c287
  12. :What Must The Next The Sims 3 Expansion Pack Should Include?/toplist-item-4d0de0f49dd71
  13. :What Must The Next The Sims 3 Expansion Pack Should Include?/toplist-item-4d0de0fbc8ba5
  14. :What Must The Next The Sims 3 Expansion Pack Should Include?/toplist-item-4d0de0fbd7c2c
  15. :What Must The Next The Sims 3 Expansion Pack Should Include?/toplist-item-4d0de105e2857
  16. :What Must The Next The Sims 3 Expansion Pack Should Include?/toplist-item-4d0e1dc1f0b11

Any information on this? K6ka (talk | contribs) 22:59, March 22, 2014 (UTC)

Those must be leftovers of Top 10 List feature by wikia. There's also this Category:Top 10 Lists that contains what used to be Top 10 List pages that now no longer exists. I guess the feature was enabled and disabled some time before I was here? I'm not sure.
Have you tried creating a page from the link and then delete it? Will it work? Or perhaps we need to enable the feature first and delete them properly? Nikel Talk – Vote! 04:16, March 23, 2014 (UTC)
The Wiki Features log can be found here. I think this one is it - 22:02, June 3, 2012 (EST) Lost Labyrinth (Talk | contribs | block) wikifeatures (set extension option: wgShowTopListsInCreatePage = false).
I will try to recreate the pages and then delete them to see if it goes away. If it doesn't, I'll try to enable and disable the extension and see if it forces the MediaWiki software to realize that those pages don't actually exist. K6ka (talk | contribs) 12:09, March 23, 2014 (UTC)
Oh, then I suppose the feature had sunk into oblivion before it was disabled. :p Nikel Talk – Vote! 16:57, March 23, 2014 (UTC)
Well I tried creating and deleting the pages - list entries are still there. I guess we do need to re-enable the extension and hope they go away then. K6ka (talk | contribs) 11:56, March 24, 2014 (UTC)
I've re-enabled the feature, delete the broken redirects, and re-disabled it. The broken redirects are now redlinks, so hopefully the next time wikia update the data, they will be gone. Nikel Talk – Vote! 17:00, March 27, 2014 (UTC)
Resolved. Entries are gone for good. K6ka (talk | contribs) 14:35, March 28, 2014 (UTC)
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