When an external link http:// is used within a [[wikilink]] AND has a leading space such as http://www.anu.edu.au the link is created as an internal redlink to itself. Such a "link" also avoids the blacklist.
It would seem worthwhile to 'chomp' any leading spaces inside a [[wikilink]], especially where the character after the space is a url.
Example:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Billinghurst/sandbox&oldid=3585709
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