User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: March 1, 2017/@comment-5558012-20170303184232

As for the contribution count linking to Special:Contributions, why the unnecessary duplicate link? Was it added just because the Discussions count links somewhere (which doesn't have another link on the same page)? Is the Contribution tab going to be removed? Removing the current link is the only logical reason I see for adding the new link. Why not add a Discussions tab instead of linking the total?