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Theory:

You should not be able to save a page and get

Foo {{subst:Anything}} foo

as the resulting wikitext.  It shouldn't be *possible*; all {{subst:Anything}}s that aren't wrapped in nowiki tags ought to be subst'd.


Data:

If you type:

http://example.com/wiki/{{subst:CURRENTDATE}}_{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} 

into a page and save it today, the resulting wikitext will be:

http://example.com/wiki/{{subst:CURRENTDATE}}_November.


This is not bug 2700, whih is about subst failures when wrapped inside ref tags and similar.  This surprising behavior does not involve any tags.  It's just a bare URL by itself.