Some articles do not appear in the in-world search and also cannot be @ linked

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By PensiveFatherfigure on 01/09/2026
· Assigned to Xuroth

I have a handful of articles (one person, one organization, one landmark and two others) which are not accessible in my world as they should be and i cannot tell why. its only like 5 articles out of several thousands but so far i cannot see anything they have in common.

i have the example of the dreadnought article and the eclipse article here. dreadnought is a species in my world and also the name of a landmark. if i search for the article in-world or in the old editor the article does not appear at all (though it does show up with advanced search turned on I found out just now). in the new editor the search does show them, also with the @-search method, but they still cannot be found via suggestion in the in-world search and cannot be linked via the @-search method in the old editor through which i link almost everything as the new editor lags too much for me to use.

copying the articles link and pasting it works. inputting it into the in-world search and then pressing esc to get rid of the suggestions and then pressing enter also shows both the species and the landmark. have a similar problem with an organization i created just yesterday which does not show up in suggestions, the eclipse.

it also doesn't seem to be an issue of two articles of different types having the same name, I've tried to recreate landmarks/orgs/people/cities with same names and they show up without issue.

have some screenshots here which hopefully explain the oddness of it: Imgur screenshots
  or the extra link; https://imgur.com/a/K7M2P98

Steps to Reproduce

sadly my world is private and I do not know how exactly to reproduce this issue. it seems to have hit 5 articles out of thousands at random, unrelated to the name, the time of creation or anything else I can feasibly see. if there's other steps I can do to help narrow down the issue, I'll happily do them.

Operating System

Windows

Browser

Google Chrome

Related Entity

this issue likely relates to articles and the search and @ function and possibly also the old editor in itself. if it showed in-world i wouldn't mind that these handful of articles are only link-able via the new editor at all, but like this my players who aren't proficient at world anvil cant find certain things.

History

mikolaszko @ 13 Jan, 2026 03:11:40 Developer
Assigned Xuroth