Category talk:Pages with broken file links

A page gets listed here and you can't fathom why?

 * If the page is listed here, then the wiki software has determined there is a broken file link. If you can't figure out which one or why, let me know and I'll dig in deeper. ShoeMaker (Contributions • Message) 13:25, November 15, 2014 (EST)


 * I know What you are saying. Let me see if I can give some pointers on solving how entries show up in this category.
 * Recent uploads used on pages before the job queue adds the file to the database.
 * If you save a new page with an image that hasn't been uploaded, or is being uploaded at the same time, or was just recently updated before the page was made, then the page will likely show up in this category, but will eventually go away on its own once the job queue gets around to updating the categories on the page.
 * To correct the issue yourself immediately (as job queues have been known to take months) you need to preform null edits on both the image then the page, you will need to go to the page where the image is, ie File:Example.png where Example.png is the new image. Click "Edit", "⇓ Scroll down to edit box ⇓", and then the "Save page" button.  Then, you will need to preform a null edit on the page where the image is used (the page that is in this category) by navigating to the page, clicking "Edit", "⇓ Scroll down to edit box ⇓", and then the "Save page" button.
 * Use of really old images that were "transwikied" from enterwiki. When we migrated all the images from enterwiki a few years back, the images made it over, but none of the corresponding pages in the database for the files made it over, so the server doesn't "know" they are all here.  When this happens, the software displays the file which is where it is suppose to be, but since it doesn't see the file in the database, the page lands here.  There are a couple ways to fix this so that the page will no longer be in this category.  The best way to do it is to download the image to your local machine, get an administrator to "delete" the image from the server and then re-upload the image using the software's upload page to the same location.  Once you do this, preform a null edit on the image and the page in the category and it should go away.  Complications have been known to arise in this process and it has been known to not take.  In those cases, your best bet is to contact Xevo or myself.
 * So, it's not a bug in the software itself. The first example (the one that applies to your comment) is a just a matter of a little patience (and the reason in only shows up in one of two category sections is because one of them is populated by the core software itself, which relies on the job queue to update it, and the other is an extension we use to prettify the category structure.  Some interesting reading on the topic can be found at mw:Manual:Job queue — mw:Manual:Purge#Null edits  The second was created by human error in the heat of the moment and will take a large scale effort on my part to completely correct the issue (it's also part the reason we can't move files to other page names without downloading the image, deleting the old page name, and re-uploading to a new page name). ShoeMaker (Contributions • Message) 15:10, November 16, 2014 (EST)