User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: September 16, 2014/@comment-452-20140918125427

‏Speaking of RTL and LTR, is there any word on getting the &amp;lrm; and &amp;rlm; characters removed from links on special pages so they're not inserted when copied? Edit: or simply stripped when inserted as characters?

For those who do not know what I'm talking about:
 * Go to Special:RecentChanges and copy any link, such as "Help:Welcome tool‎" < Or just copy this
 * Paste it and use the keyboard arrows to progress through each character, and notice that it takes two arrow presses to get past the ".

Pasting that link into https://mothereff.in/html-entities gives the result: "Help:Welcome tool&amp;lrm;" - revealing that there is an invisible character which is added to pages whenever anyone copies a link from most special pages.

Special:WantedPages has both a lrm and a rlm: "Wikia IRC channels‏‎ (16,013 links)" is "Wikia IRC channels&amp;rlm;&amp;lrm; (16,013 links)"

Edit: Or, you can simply inspect the source of the special pages to see them displayed there as "&amp;rlm; and &amp;lrm;" - but copy/pasting to test is helpful to prove that they're inserted when copy/pasting links into an article.