Erik Z.-
- image, external and interwiki links and hidden part of internal
links, are stripped (so the focus is on the article proper)
External link text and interwiki link text should not be stripped. This is part of the article proper. Image captions should not be stripped either.
- now all series of 0-9,a-z,A-Z,?-ÿ characters of length >=2 are counted
Single character words, numbers etc. must be counted. This is normal in word counting. Not doing so is not conservative but wrong.
Regards,
Erik