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The magic word  gives poor formatting and fails in wikilinks if the username starts with an asterisk '*' or semicolon ';'. This template is a workaround. It is not needed if T28781 is fixed.

Usage
Use  instead of

Use  instead of

Note the pipe instead of a colon.

Example
Suppose you want to link the last editor of User:*Treker/sandbox.

produces:

User:

For comparison,  produces:

User:

The latter fails if the last editor is  and T28781 is unfixed.

Usernames starting with * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=*] or ; [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=;] are relatively rare. may work correctly if it is not in the output but only used in a test during processing.

Alternative approach
Wrapping  with   so it looks like   also works.