Commons talk:Picture of the day

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POTY finalists unused

Hello. I found some of the POTY finalists in Commons talk:Picture of the day/Unused featured pictures. (I am not familiar with POTY2006 or POTY2007, so there might be more POTY2006 or 2007 finalists unused). Will you - can you use them in POTD?

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  The 3d of POTY2006
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  POTY2008 finalist
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  POTY2008 finalist
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  POTY2008 finalist
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  POTY2008 finalist
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  POTY2008 finalist
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  POTY2008 finalist
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  POTY2008 finalist
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  POTY2008 finalist
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  POTY2008 finalist

Messy redlinks all over the template

It seems to me that the templates double the redlinks unnecessarily. For each language that does not have a description, there is a redlink on the language name (ok), and then a redlink of the template name that is missing (not ok). Both link to the same place, so I would much prefer only to see one of them. Is there a technical problem doing this? --99of9 (talk) 03:42, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

I agree with you that this doesn't look good, but I'm afraid we can't change this. Technically, there's an option to use {{#ifexist}}, but this parser function can only be used <500 times on a page (and developers are planning to reduce this to <100). We would definitely hit this limit, and in such a case any ifexist parser function will be treated as if the page would exist, even if it actually doesn't. So, the only option to remove the redlinks is to create a translation. --The Evil IP address (talk) 13:25, 15 January 2010 (UTC)