If a page inlines some other page (such as this page by the bugs page), and the page is removed (such as by this page being linked to bugs/done), the inlining page is not updated to remove it. This only happens if the page is removed from the inlined pagespec due to a tag changing; the problem is that once the tag is changed, ikiwiki does not know that the page used to match before. Another example would be a pagespec that allowed only matching new pages: newer(1 day) Obviously, the pages that matches are going to change, and again once they do, ikiwiki will no longer know that they matched before, so it won't know to remove them from a page that used that to inline them. To fix, seems I would need to record the actual list of pages that are currently included on an inline page, and do a comparison to see if any have changed. At first I thought, why not just add them to the dependencies explicitly, but that failed because the dependencies GlobList failed to match when a negated expression like "!tag(bugs/done)" is matched. It is, however, doable with PageSpecs: (real deps here) or (list of all currently inlined pages here) However, it's not really clear to me how to _remove_ inlined pages from the deps when they stop being inlined for whatever reason. So a separate list would be better. So this is blocked by [[todo/plugin_data_storage]] I suppose.