Thread:Support/About MediaWiki:Pagepreparation/en

This message exhibits a general problem. According to its documentation, is is:
 * ''Used as page title in Special:PageMigration, and also used as link text in Special:SpecialPages.

It shares these uses with a not-so-small class of MediaWiki messages used twice. That should be avoided, and it does not work anyways when translated.

The entire class of messages actually has three uses:


 * 1) As a link in Special:SpecialPages:
 * 2) * ''Do something about a page/user/…
 * 3) As a title of its own special page when no selection has been made:
 * 4) * ''Do something about a page/user/… to be named now.
 * 5) As a title of its own special page with a selection made:
 * 6) * ''Do something about this page/user/…
 * (Case 2 does not always apply)

While we can translate case 2 identical to case 1 in Colognian - not good but acceptable - there is no valid grammatical way to combine it with case 3. Thus whatever we translate, it is ridiculously wrong at least once.