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[edit] What happens

  1. Visit the page en:Image talk:Somerset map.png.
  2. Someone entered stuff into the talk page of the image, but the image itself does not exist on en. It exists on shared.
  3. But the "file" link on top sends you to an edit page, not to the actual image. It is an integration issue.

[edit] When it happens

In that sequence, always.

[edit] What should happen

The "file" should take you to a page where the image can be seen.

[edit] How to fix it

Should be easy. — Ravikiran r 11:38, 2 March 2007 (EST)

Maybe the "talk" link on the English version should redirect automatically to the shared images' talk page, if that's where the image is located? Is that even possible? – cacahuate talk 02:00, 15 July 2007 (EDT)

There is nothing stopping somebody from creating a "talk" page for a nonexistent article. You can try it yourself -- go to a talk page and change the article name to something totally bogus. If that's what happens, I don't think this is a critical issue. If, however, there is some link pointing to the bogus talk page that would encourage people to create it that's more of a problem. Anybody have any insight on this point? KevinSours 17:44, 19 August 2008 (EDT)

True, but since we want all images on shared anyway, I think the only way to fix this, if it's even possible, is that on any given language version, clicking on a red "talk" link for an image will take you directly to shared and create the page there rather than on :en, etc... – cacahuate talk 20:18, 19 August 2008 (EDT)