Thread:Steven Bomb 17/@comment-5956954-20180703143919

The brackets count as characters that contribute to the syntax that hyperlinks the "StevenBomb" text. As a result, the brackets break the syntax and have the code/wikitext display on the wiki page itself. That's why they were replaced with HTML entities. The HTML entities substitute the brackets and "7" without using what broke the syntax. 
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