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Somebody on the Talk page given in the URL pointed out that the XHTML for that Talk page does not validate. I checked, and this is so. Here is the output from the validator:  

Validation Output:  1 Error
   1. Error Line 335, Column 45: value of attribute "id" invalid: "." cannot start a name
      <p><a name=".22Bug.22_defined_in_1892." id=".22Bug.22_defined_in_1892."></a></p>
      It is possible that you violated the naming convention for this attribute. For example, id and name attributes must begin with a letter, not a digit.

The problem is caused by the following section heading:  
    "Bug" defined in 1892.

As you can see, each quotation mark is being converted to '.22' making the name/id attribute begin with a '.'.


Neat bug. One way to fix it would be to always add a leading dummy character to the attribute. This would make it look something like:  
    name="X.22Bug..."