What are the use cases of marking links in red and unabling to edit them?

[Dolores Rhyme]

Hi community,

Sometimes I find that links are marked in grey. In the editor, the red links are blue, but I can't edit them.

What are the reasons of this behaviour?

I would be really grateful for the answer.

[WW]

Hi @Dolores Rhyme ,

Those links are either broken or someone created them in order to prompt them to later create a page named the same as the link.

See Undefined Page Links

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

A red link appears when the server cannot reach the page you have linked to for some reason.

In the editor, try unblinking the text before editing it.

[Dolores Rhyme]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-I'm really grateful for your answer. But, for the most part, broken links are editable. Why is that in some cases they are totally ineditable? Maybe, you have an assumption.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

What do you mean by "totally ineditable"?  You can always edit the text of the body of a page, whether it's in a link, macro, or just the plain body.

[Dolores Rhyme]

You can see the screenshot in my question that shows a link that can't be editable, it's broken. That's why I wonder how it happens that some broken links are editable, but some you can only unlink and attach a new onw. Why so...?