Thread:Project:Support desk/Pages with file redirects are showing up in broken links category

My wiki is running 1.18 on PHP 5.2.17 and MySQL 5.0.37. It's running locally so I'm not able to link to it. Background: my wiki documents a video game. Within the game, there are a large number of unique items, but these items are visually represented by a smaller set of unique icons. In other words, some icons are redundant, but each is tied to one or more unique items. I have a (large) set of these icons on my wiki. To avoid redundancy of data while preserving the ability to search icons by the item name, I currently utilize many file redirects. So for example, item A and B share the same icon. I upload the icon as ItemA.png and then redirect ItemB.png to ItemA.png. Now anyone searching for ItemB media will find the correct icon. Additionally, this also means that if something should change in the game, such as the icon being modified, I can just update the one file and the others are updated as well.

When I go to the mainspace article ItemB, which links to ItemB.png, the image displays correctly and no maintenance category is reported on the page (I have "Show hidden categories" on). However, when I go to my wiki's Category:Pages with broken file links, any page using a file redirect shows up in this category. It's as though the category inclusion is super-hidden. But more importantly, I feel that the pages should not be in that category since the redirects are valid. 76.253.0.17 03:17, 30 July 2012 (UTC)