Thread:Fearless Diva/@comment-3452092-20180930032253/@comment-3452092-20180930130139

At the bottom of every page is a menu called "My Tools". Hover over it or click on it and you will reveal a very short menu. The top item is "What Links Here" (sorry, I messed up the name. Click on it and it brings you to an otherwise hidden page that tells you what links to the page you were just on. The link after the wiki/ part of the url is Special:WhatLinksHere/ followed by the name of the page you are trying to look up. For example if you were trying to look up the What Links Here for your user profile it would look like this: https://choices-stories-you-play.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/User:HighSchoolStoryLover!

Apparently not much, but then most user pages don't. My own is similarly short. Fearless Diva's is a bit longer, but that's not surprising since she's an admin.

Now where it can be especially useful is in deleted pages such as where a page has been renamed. Those pages are not gone. There is still a record of them somewhere on the page and even pages that have never existed can be checked with What Links Here so long as you put in the address for what the page would be if it existed.

When you make a new page by clicking "Add a Page" there is a list of suggestions in red letters. These are not random. These are pages that somewhere on the website something links to them. When I clicked "Add a Page" just now, here's what came up:

Or click on one of the titles below and start writing!

Zack Untitled Magic Book It Lives - Untitled Sequel Your Character's Dad The Stormlands Evidence Board

Recognize some of those names? How about if I link all of those up to their What Links Here pages:


 * Zack
 * Untitled Magic Book
 * It Lives - Untitled Sequel
 * Your Character's Dad
 * The Stormlands
 * Evidence Board

Now, there really isn't anything we can do with those. Every last one of what links to them is user pages and people's comments. I think Admin's can change both of those. . . I've had my user page changed by Wolf once or twice when there was a link on my page to something that was changed.

I have found that set of special pages immensely valuable on my own wikias. . . mostly when I change page names, but sometimes when I am trying to find pages using a specific template as well.