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I assume you meant how Dataview should handle these fields. IMO better to leave it as a string for now since this is a fairly niche case where we can...

I feel like I've seen this elsewhere. Can you check the issues for a duplicate? I should also add a front-end tag for this.

Can you give us steps to reproduce this error?

Very interesting. I'll let blacksmithgu comment.

@thomaszahr are you still having trouble with this?

Can you give us a sequential set of steps to repro with?

Ya I didn't expect it to be persistent. I doubt I have the chops to investigate it but I'll give it a try when I can.

Could potentially use some CSS but I'm not knowledgeable enough to help beyond that.

Your issue is separate I think but that's intended behavior. Wikilinks are a separate object as compared to strings. Your first snippet is doing string checking while the second one...

Does this look like what you're looking for? https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/data-annotation/#field-shorthands