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That's a MediaWiki specific quirk, which I'm afraid we'd be unable to fix without hacking the core files, which is a really bad idea at best.
I suppose an extension could be dolled up to ignore the stock rules to circumvent this, but my PHP skills are practically nonexistent. :(