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Autocomplete for "Preview page with this template" suggests too many irrelevant pages (Community Wishlist/W500)

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Description

The autocomplete feature for the page title field in "Preview page with this template" is not limited to pages that transclude the template you're editing. So even if e.g. "Azerbaijan" is the only article that starts with "A" that transcludes the template, typing "A" suggests "Association football", "Australia", "Animal", etc., making the feature almost pointless.

Given the list of transclusions in the database may not be up to date, there might be some use for suggesting those pages, but at the very least pages that are already known to transclude the template should appear as suggestions before pages that aren't.

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  • Created: 17:52, 29 January 2026
  • Last updated: 17:52, 29 January 2026
  • Author: Nardog (talk)
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Support Nardog (talk) 17:52, 29 January 2026