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I noticed that Main Page/ (n.b. the forward slash included) is high up on search results. In fact, DDG lists it as the "official" page for this wiki [1]. I was a little confused when I arrived and merely saw the message "this page needs content" though; it took me a few minutes to work out why I wasn't seeing the main page I expected. I tried to redirect it to Main Page, but the forward slash triggers the spam filter (as an aside, it's rather dumb that the "report false positives" link requires userrights at the VSTF wiki). Since it points at the main page you may want to protect it once it's redirected, too? I don't know, just calling more attention to the matter since I'm not an editor here. 24.72.13.24 01:22, February 2, 2013 (UTC)

How odd. Thanks for pointing it out.
I understand DDG uses Wikipedia for some of its information. I found an (unused?) "website" field in the infobox of the Freeciv Wikipedia article and corrected it; let's see if that helps.
I won't try to create the page-with-trailing-slash redirect here on Wikia just yet, in case that legitimises the existence of the bogus URL.
-- JTN (talk) 12:39, February 2, 2013 (UTC)
I didn't realize that DDG was populating search results based on WP's infoboxes. That's pretty neat. As far as the awkward "Main Page/" link, your WP edit seems to have done the trick. Thanks for looking into it. 24.72.13.24 03:10, April 2, 2013 (UTC)
The solved problem ended up on Special:WantedPages as wanted from here, I disabled it. –Dunnoob 💩 12:42, July 15, 2016 (UTC)
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