Nathan J. Yoder (njyoder@energon.org) [050704 06:10]:
I also notice that no one has made an argument for why it should work that way, since it's clearly only meant to thwart block evasion (which this is not a case of).
wikien-l isn't a development list. Have you tried reporting it as a bug yet? Or perhaps discussing it on mediawiki-l (the list for the software) would be appropriate first.
- d.