Last modified: 2011-10-10 18:20:18 UTC
I've been noticing a lot of edits like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hard_Candy&diff=67297741&oldid=62696916 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pok%C3%A9mon&diff=105187516&oldid=104903353 Where the effect of piping the link is only to make it partly italic and partly not. So then I wondered, for the first example, why can't we write: [[''Hard Candy'' (album)]] to make the words "Hard Candy" italic, leaving the word "(album)" normal format. Currently this would produce a red link, to a title with two pairs of actual apostrophes. But, I can't think of any legitimate title that would contain an apostrophe followed by another apostrophe. Generally if somebody does that they meant to use a quotation mark. So I was wondering if we could change the interpretation of wiki-text to ignore grouped apostrophes when determining the target of a link, and use them as format instructions instead. (for example, [[RMS ''Titanic'']] would be half-italic and still point to "RMS_Titanic" "RMS_%27%27Titanic%27%27") charlotte
(for example, [[RMS ''Titanic'']] would be half-italic and still point to "RMS_Titanic" "RMS_%27%27Titanic%27%27") (can we get a preview button for bugzilla by any chance?)
correction, such a link does not actually point to anything, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:CharlotteWebb/Sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=105511887 But apparently it does in the edit summary for some reason
Actually, there are some languages which use double apostrophes or a very similar character combination in their titles; it caused a bit of annoyance when fixing up the link handling code in early 2006.
Neapolitan? I thought they were using some kind of workaround for that, though. Do they actually have titles containing literally "''"?
Yes they did at least, I don't know what they do nowdays. I'm in favor of wontfixing this bug, since being able to link to articles is more important that shortcut for styling the links, unless you can think of a way having both.
