https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671

--- Comment #54 from Christopher Yeleighton <[email protected]> 2010-07-26 
16:15:37 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #51)
> * On other stuff:
> 
> --- Comment #48 from Christopher Yeleighton 2010-07-25 08:42:53 UTC ---
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich&oldid=375340399
> 
> Why would we do that? The text is question isn't a link, so it shouldn't be
> marked up as one.  And doing so wouldn't fix anything, since there isn't
> anything in that syntax or its [mis]use that tells the parser "this is the
> defining instance", something that requires human judgment.
> 

The text in question is a relative link that happens to be reflexive.  The
engine detects that the link is reflexive so it renders the link as STRONG
(instead of A).  I would say it could convert the first reflexive link in the
intro section of the article body to a DFN equally well, therefore allowing DFN
is not necessary for this use case.  The advantage is that the link uses wiki
syntax, not HTML syntax.

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