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This may not be the right place to post this but I wasn't sure where else to put it.

I think the discontinuity pages have led to a serious problem. Sometimes, when searching the wiki for an episode name, what actually comes up is a link to the discontinuity page on that episode (or the talk page for that discon page) rather than the article itself. Sometimes the summary is nevertheless that of the article.

I'm not sure I've nailed down the bug exactly, but I have at least one repeatable repro:

1. Go to Forum:Index.
2. Type in "Destiny of Daleks" (without "the") in the search box.
3. The first result will read as if it were a link Destiny of the Daleks, and the summary will be appropriate to that article, and it won't be a redlnk.
4. Click the link, and you are instead taken to Forum talk:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Destiny of the Daleks.

--Falcotron 02:49, May 7, 2010 (UTC)

If you actually type the full name of a page--e.g., "Destiny of the Daleks"--you do go right to the correct page, not to the wrong one. It's only when you do a "search" instead of a "go" (or whatever the distinction is). --Falcotron 02:51, May 7, 2010 (UTC)