Labels with periods do not render

[aspaninks]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/autolinked-references-and-urls#labels

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

Article states:

When referencing the URL of a label in Markdown, the label is automatically rendered.

My repo has labels with a period . in them, e.g.: Thing.Abc, Thing.Xyz, etc.
These labels do not render automatically via the described method.
I also tried an escape character \. and a unicode notation .

Expected outcome:
Update documentation to mention labels should not contain .

Additional information

See #18704, it contains a good explanation and example, which I used to confirm it was not user-error. I was able to get non-period labels to render successfully.

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[cmwilson21]

@aspaninks Thanks so much for opening an issue! I'll triage this for the team to take a look 👀

[sabrowning1]

Hi @aspaninks, thanks for opening this issue! 💛 This would be a helpful addition to the docs. You or anyone others are welcome to open a PR with this change 👍🏼

[ujjwal-shekhar]

Hi can I work on this