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Wrong user link, but intended

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Summary by Ltrlg

The toolforge tool mishandles HTML entities. Additional alternate account links are allowed.

Ltrlg (talkcontribs)

Hello. My alternate account Ltrtst has a signature containing links to both user accounts, for transparency reasons. It is currently considered invalid according to the toolforge tool. Was this use case overlooked, or is it the expected behaviour?

I know I could “just” unlink the disallowed part, but it seems suboptimal.

AntiCompositeNumber (talkcontribs)

The extraneous brackets are confusing the Wikitext parsing library into not considering [[[Utilisateur:Ltrtst|Ltrtst]]] to be a wikilink. (Everything works correctly with them removed, example) The HTML entities are evaluated by MediaWiki after parsing, but I have to evaluate them before parsing. You can safely ignore this false positive.

Ltrlg (talkcontribs)

Great to know, thanks!