diff --git a/core/src/shared/issue-ref.js b/core/src/shared/issue-ref.js
index 015f85595..7eb2dbf50 100644
--- a/core/src/shared/issue-ref.js
+++ b/core/src/shared/issue-ref.js
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
 // front makes it part of an identifier, a version, a hex colour or a URL fragment (`C#7`, `1.2#3`,
 // `#3366ff`, `help/#123`), and a word character behind means the number keeps going (`#1360abc`).
 // `owner/repo#12` is its own shape, tried separately, so this separation cannot swallow it: there
-// the `#` follows a repo name rather than a space.
-const ISSUE_REF = /(?<![\w./-])#(\d{1,7})(?![\w])|(?:github\.com\/)?([\w.-]+)\/([\w.-]+)#(\d{1,7})(?![\w])|github\.com\/([\w.-]+)\/([\w.-]+)\/(?:issues|pull)\/(\d{1,7})(?![\w])/gi
+// the `#` follows a repo name rather than a space. It needs the same boundary in front, or a URL
+// whose path has a segment before the `#` reads as that shape and names an issue nobody meant
+// (`https://example.com/page#123`, #1392).
+const ISSUE_REF = /(?<![\w./-])#(\d{1,7})(?![\w])|(?<![\w./-])(?:github\.com\/)?([\w.-]+)\/([\w.-]+)#(\d{1,7})(?![\w])|github\.com\/([\w.-]+)\/([\w.-]+)\/(?:issues|pull)\/(\d{1,7})(?![\w])/gi
 
 // The id a match of `ISSUE_REF` names, normalised to `#1234`. The three shapes carry their number in
 // different groups (1, 4, 7); every reader takes it from here, so no caller can pick the wrong one.
diff --git a/core/test/issue-ref-url-fragment.test.js b/core/test/issue-ref-url-fragment.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..990ad3577
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/test/issue-ref-url-fragment.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// A URL fragment is not an issue reference (#1392). The repository-qualified shape
+// `owner/repo#12` has no lookbehind, so a link whose path carries a segment before the `#` read as
+// `<host>/<segment>#12` — `https://example.com/page#123` named issue #123 — and the dispatch wrote
+// a card for an issue nobody meant (#1360).
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+import { test } from 'node:test'
+import { issueRefs, namesIssue } from '../src/shared/issue-ref.js'
+
+const fragments = [
+  'see https://example.com/page#123 for details',
+  'https://example.com/docs/guide#12',
+  'read https://docs.example.org/a/b#42 then',
+]
+
+for (const text of fragments) {
+  test(`a URL fragment is not an issue reference: ${text}`, () => {
+    assert.deepEqual(issueRefs(text), [], text)
+  })
+}
+
+test('the shapes that name an issue keep working beside a URL', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(issueRefs('owner/repo#1360'), ['#1360'])
+  assert.deepEqual(issueRefs('see owner/repo#1360 for the fix'), ['#1360'])
+  assert.deepEqual(issueRefs('please rebase #1360 onto main'), ['#1360'])
+  assert.deepEqual(issueRefs('https://github.com/o/r/issues/1360'), ['#1360'])
+  assert.deepEqual(issueRefs('@Dev-2 rebase owner/repo#1360'), ['#1360'])
+  assert.equal(namesIssue('https://example.com/docs/guide#12', 12), false)
+  assert.equal(namesIssue('owner/repo#1360', 1360), true)
+})
diff --git a/patches/ds-bot/files/src/shared/issue-ref.js b/patches/ds-bot/files/src/shared/issue-ref.js
index 015f85595..7eb2dbf50 100644
--- a/patches/ds-bot/files/src/shared/issue-ref.js
+++ b/patches/ds-bot/files/src/shared/issue-ref.js
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
 // front makes it part of an identifier, a version, a hex colour or a URL fragment (`C#7`, `1.2#3`,
 // `#3366ff`, `help/#123`), and a word character behind means the number keeps going (`#1360abc`).
 // `owner/repo#12` is its own shape, tried separately, so this separation cannot swallow it: there
-// the `#` follows a repo name rather than a space.
-const ISSUE_REF = /(?<![\w./-])#(\d{1,7})(?![\w])|(?:github\.com\/)?([\w.-]+)\/([\w.-]+)#(\d{1,7})(?![\w])|github\.com\/([\w.-]+)\/([\w.-]+)\/(?:issues|pull)\/(\d{1,7})(?![\w])/gi
+// the `#` follows a repo name rather than a space. It needs the same boundary in front, or a URL
+// whose path has a segment before the `#` reads as that shape and names an issue nobody meant
+// (`https://example.com/page#123`, #1392).
+const ISSUE_REF = /(?<![\w./-])#(\d{1,7})(?![\w])|(?<![\w./-])(?:github\.com\/)?([\w.-]+)\/([\w.-]+)#(\d{1,7})(?![\w])|github\.com\/([\w.-]+)\/([\w.-]+)\/(?:issues|pull)\/(\d{1,7})(?![\w])/gi
 
 // The id a match of `ISSUE_REF` names, normalised to `#1234`. The three shapes carry their number in
 // different groups (1, 4, 7); every reader takes it from here, so no caller can pick the wrong one.
diff --git a/patches/ds-bot/files/test/issue-ref-url-fragment.test.js b/patches/ds-bot/files/test/issue-ref-url-fragment.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..990ad3577
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/ds-bot/files/test/issue-ref-url-fragment.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// A URL fragment is not an issue reference (#1392). The repository-qualified shape
+// `owner/repo#12` has no lookbehind, so a link whose path carries a segment before the `#` read as
+// `<host>/<segment>#12` — `https://example.com/page#123` named issue #123 — and the dispatch wrote
+// a card for an issue nobody meant (#1360).
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+import { test } from 'node:test'
+import { issueRefs, namesIssue } from '../src/shared/issue-ref.js'
+
+const fragments = [
+  'see https://example.com/page#123 for details',
+  'https://example.com/docs/guide#12',
+  'read https://docs.example.org/a/b#42 then',
+]
+
+for (const text of fragments) {
+  test(`a URL fragment is not an issue reference: ${text}`, () => {
+    assert.deepEqual(issueRefs(text), [], text)
+  })
+}
+
+test('the shapes that name an issue keep working beside a URL', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(issueRefs('owner/repo#1360'), ['#1360'])
+  assert.deepEqual(issueRefs('see owner/repo#1360 for the fix'), ['#1360'])
+  assert.deepEqual(issueRefs('please rebase #1360 onto main'), ['#1360'])
+  assert.deepEqual(issueRefs('https://github.com/o/r/issues/1360'), ['#1360'])
+  assert.deepEqual(issueRefs('@Dev-2 rebase owner/repo#1360'), ['#1360'])
+  assert.equal(namesIssue('https://example.com/docs/guide#12', 12), false)
+  assert.equal(namesIssue('owner/repo#1360', 1360), true)
+})