https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54604

--- Comment #4 from Isarra <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Honestly I'd recommend just killing these link icons outright...

One of the things to consider is when and where the links are actually used,
and if special treatment is even sensible anymore. 

Generally we'd probably only want special icons for things that are both fairly
commonly used and where the browser reaction would be significantly different
from general browsing - for things like PDFs, which are often used for sources,
that can open up in a new window or rearrange the tab depending on browser, or
mailto and IRC which often send the request out of the browser entirely and
open a new window. Users do like warning when it comes to that sort of thing,
indeed.

Whereas we probably don't want anything special for things like https, ftp, etc
where the browser just opens it like normal, especially since for instance
https is becoming more and more common as the default...

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