[RFNAPLES]

This site has difficulty with many Wikipedia hyperlinks that include parentheses. See http://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=30393#30393

Trying to manually code them returns a blank preview. Automatic URLs ignore information from the first ( and thereby return incorrect hyperlinks.
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[albummaster]

yes, been reported before. Bug with BBCode on phpBB. Workaround is not to use the URL BBCode, just paste the URL into post body:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cure_%28Keith_Jarrett_album%29

[RFNAPLES]

Pasting the URL into the body automatically gets it converted to a truncated and incorrect hyperlink.
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[albummaster]

let me try...

this link...:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita

and this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29

oh, and this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29

these are all the links from this post, right?: http://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=30393#30393

I accept there is a problem, but there is also a workaround. Just use URL encoded characters in place of parentheses. This is on the bug tracker waiting to be fixed.

[RFNAPLES]

Sorry, I didn't think of putting in the html code for parentheses; merely cutting and pasting didn't work.
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[albummaster]

sorry, I know it's not very logical & this will get fixed at some point (pasting in Firefox gives you the encoded URL - not sure about IE).

[RFNAPLES]

IE9 doesn't give the encoded URL.
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[albummaster]

think this bug is now fixed (but unencoded brackets in URLs are not strictly legal - naughty Wikipedia 🫵 ):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(Blood,_Sweat_&_Tears_album)

[RFNAPLES]

Thanks. Don't you love noncompliant w3c sites?
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[albummaster]

nobody's perfect, but a site as important as that shouldn't be using those sort of URLs