I'm pointing Milhist people here so that we can discuss exceptions, that is, any duplicate links that you'd prefer to retain.
For some reason, when I open Demographics of Croatia, the link for this tool doesn't appear in the sidebar, although it does appear for other articles. --Stfg (talk) 11:21, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
I installed the script. However while the duplicate links are highlighted, the over-linked terms are not. I think that perhaps i am not doing something to get that done. Would someone mind explaining what i must do to get the over-linked terms highlighted? Joyson Prabhu Holla at me! 09:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
I'm getting the tool to work on other pages, but I can't seem to get it to work on Humorology, any ideas?
*[[foo]] [[foo]] then no duplicates come up and
*[[foo]] [[foo]] [[foo]]
the only the last link to foo is counted as a duplicate, not the second one.Naraht (talk) 18:01, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ucucha. I've just created WP:VPT#Error on loading page (2) which involves page loading errors with duplinks not appearing in the sidebar. Last time it wasn't duplinks's fault, but I thought you'd want to know, especially as duplinks didn't appear at the side of VPT, which showed no page loading error. Rgds, --Stfg (talk) 16:21, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
It is located at User:Piotrus/common.js, and does nothing when I click it. I tried several pages and two browsers. I'd wager a guess that something messes up it links to execute it (so for example at Great Sejm, it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sejm#). Could it clash with something at User:Piotrus/vector.js? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 23:17, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey, it's me. This time I am 100% sure this is not me being blind. Ex. in Tadeusz Kościuszko I try clicking on "Highlight..." link ([1]). I try to use it in Firefox and Chrome, nothing happens. Chrome Java Consol reports nothing. Could it be clashing with WikiEd? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:52, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Can this script highlight the first link, say with a green box? As it is, it only highlights what it determines to be a duplicate. However on longer articles, it may actually be a good idea to relink subsequent mentions in a different section. I'm thinking of Interstate 75 in Michigan, where a lot of the same intersecting highways and locations will be mentioned again in the "History" section after being mentioned in the "Route description". The RD on that is quite long (As it should be for the longest highway in the state), and a new mention of something in the History could be screens away from the first link in the RD, warranting a relink. However, that means many links in the History are "duplicates" and highlighted, but it makes it hard to see if I duplicated links within the History, or between the RD and the History. Also, the instructions aren't clear that the script doesn't highlight the first link, only the second (and third...) ones. Imzadi 1979 → 20:17, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Just a note to say how helpful your clever invention is, and how very pleased I am to have it. Tim riley talk 15:18, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Would you consider extending this very useful tool to work in the draft namespace (118 if there's not a handy constant like Namespace.DRAFT)? It would be a boon to those of us working on whipping drafts by novice editors into shape for the main article space. Worldbruce (talk) 04:38, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ucucha! I added one sentence to this documentation page. Believe it or not, some of us out there (me) could not get your script to work simply because we didn't know we were supposed to be in Edit mode, previewing the edit, and looking for a link outlined in red. I have never touched anyone else's page until today, so feel free to revert me, but perhaps this will help some. :-) Cheers. Prhartcom (talk) 17:17, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
I use this tool all the time now, and it's so useful I have a feature-request/possible-offshoot suggestion.
One thing I'm using quite a bit is the convert tag. Like links, this should only be provided for the first instance of any given measure. So something like...
The radar had a range of about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres). Beyond 10,000 feet, you shouldn't use the convert again.
I think I would use a tool to check for these duplications quite a bit, but that's because I do a lot of work in technical articles.
Anyway, thanks again! Maury Markowitz (talk) 23:24, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
It would be very helpful if for the first instance of duplicated links, it were bordered in green. DinoD123 (talk) 22:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
When I click on "Highlight duplicate links" nothing happens. Google Chrome Version 43.0.2357.65 m (64-bit) using HTTPS Everywhere. --DrSeehas (talk) 22:39, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
When I highlight in preview mode in S.L. Benfica, the whole lead appears highlighted and, if I scroll down, I see duplicate links for ((citation needed span)) and ((Football squad start)). SLBedit (talk) 06:33, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I want to prune out the duplicates at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics#July. I copied the page into my sandbox, but the Highlight duplicate links button isn't showing anything with a red box. Although I'm pretty sure there are duplicates, I purposefully created a duplicate entry to test the bot, but still nothing is showing up with a red box. Help? --Rosiestep (talk) 14:39, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
I put the code in, and for about a period of time I couldn't figure out what was highlighted whether in edit source or edit visual. I even tried to look at links that were obviously duplicated throughout the page but it wouldn't highlight. Can someone explain what the highlight usually looks like and how to spot a duplicate with it? I'm just dumbfound about it. Adog104 Talk to me 20:16, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Won't it be nice if it covered these sections as well? Ugog Nizdast (talk) 07:10, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
I don't think the script is actually broken yet, but wgNamespaceNumber
should be referred to as mw.config.get( 'wgNamespaceNumber' )
. --SoledadKabocha (talk) 23:49, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Since MOS:DUPLINK allows duplicate links in some cases, should there be a way to indicate that a link is a known duplicate, such that your search should ignore it? (And also a special search for such links, so one can check of overusing them.) Gah4 (talk) 21:07, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
G'day, I just ran the script on 250t-class torpedo boat and it is counting links in the lead, giving false duplinks results. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:59, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
I do not get any highlighting when I use this script. I have it pasted to my special page and see the link on the left but nothing changes when I click it. What am I doing wrong? Andrew Z. Colvin • Talk 23:12, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Nevermind. I did not know it had to be in visual editing mode. Andrew Z. Colvin • Talk 23:26, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
While using the duplinks tool, I have noticed that it does not recognise duplicate links if they are redirects, and (at least for me), it includes image captions instead of just article prose. Is there a solution to either of these issues?
Much appreciated, ▼PσlєοGєєкƧɊƲΔƦΣƉ▼ 21:33, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
This tool ought not to pick up any recurrent use of the ((cn)) template. —Hugh (talk) 21:58, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
@Ucucha: When using this tool, I notice that it doesn't highlight duplicate links that start with different letter cases. Is it possible to fix this bug? Jarble (talk) 18:06, 21 October 2020 (UTC)