Thread:Forum:Wiki Talk/Wanted Pages clutter/reply

The problem is partially one of MediaWiki's design.

MediaWiki uses a query API (Application Programming Interface) to build the lists used on the special pages, and Special:WantedPages is created by the API querying all reported instances of redlinks and their appearance on other pages and then created the Special:WantedPages list.

This is technically overcomeable by either an extension that ignores the subpage links and only reports back the main page red links or via custom scripting to the templates that does the same thing, but no known technical solution exists at the moment.

Also, Wikimedia Foundation wikis currently experience similar issues, so this isn't exactly an easily solvable problem.