Parser balks at programmatically generated special chanater as external link title
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	TheDragonFire
	Feb 10 2018, 12:43 PM

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The MediaWiki parser does not interpret the following code correctly (oldid):

[{{fullurl:Template:*|redirect=no}} {{#if:true|*}}]

It should interpret this as the same as (oldid):

[{{fullurl:Template:*|redirect=no}} *]

For more information, refer to the on-wiki discussion.

Mentioned Here: T14974: The newline added to a template, magic word, variable, or parser function that returns line-start wikicode formatting (*#:; {|) causes unexpected parsing

Sounds for T14974, the added newline is not a safe character inside a url which broke your example

You can add a <nowiki/> or use a html entity

[{{fullurl:Template:*|redirect=no}} {{#if:true|<nowiki/>*}}]
[{{fullurl:Template:*|redirect=no}} {{#if:true|&#42;}}]