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 :: So it is rosettacode that is supporting unsupported markup when it generates http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:F_Sharp. Where is supported markup defined? --[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 16:08, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
+::: Ok. "supported" may be overstating it a bit. "currently recognized" is probably more accurate. If "support" is lacking, it is by my report generator. The problem is not with Rosettacode (at least, not specifically) but with the mediawiki software it runs (possibly ran,) on. Apparently, language names that have a octothorpe in them caused issues with internal links. Someone, (I don't know who,) at some point (I don't know when) made the decision to use the written out word 'sharp' to stand in for '#', and made a note of it on the language category pages for C# and F#; the very first lines at the top of the pages. My report generator just uses the language name as used in the Category:{whatever} category page as the language name. If the task example markup doesn't use the same "language name", it won't be recognized as belonging to it.
+::: I am not defending that decision or advocating for or against it, just stating what the situation is as I understand it. And who knows? I could be completely full of crap. Wouldn't be the first time.  --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 17:06, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 :(And by the way, that 123 is the number of languages that it recognizes as having an entry for that task, not not an entry number.) --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 16:02, 31 January 2022 (UTC)