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Steps to replicate the issue:
What happens?:
Other examples:
E.g. in the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=N%C3%BCrburgring&oldid=1345190670#Modern_N%C3%BCrburgring E.g.
E.g. at https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Третья_гражданская_война_в_Судане#Реакция
Perhaps we should change it to look for the same number of digits in the first and second cases.
Something like looking for the difference between 2005 and 2010.
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| YearLinkEditCheck: Only match when link target is definitely a year | mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor | master | +65 -16 |
We found many year links of the style "1997 in politics" or "2003 in sport". Without an understanding of linguistics, these are indistinguishable from "GeForce 5090" which could create an issue if linked like [[GeForce 5000 series|GeForce 5090]].
Perhaps we should change it to look for the same number of digits in the first and second cases. Something like looking for the difference between 2005 and 2010.
There are a number of hueristics that could improve the situation but we will always have false positives if we try to detect number+text.
We may also just have to limit to year-only links for now.
Change #1276702 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] YearLinkEditCheck: Only match when link target is definitely a year
Change #1276702 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] YearLinkEditCheck: Only match when link target is definitely a year