Allow label references to specify a group
Currently, markdown references typically can only reference a `group/project`. You can't directly reference a group label - but can milestones references due to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/143859+. For example this would work, `engineering/mobile/samsung/handy~"Samsung Label"`, but this `engineering/mobile/samsubg~"Samsung Label"` would not.
This leads to problem such as https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/424736+
<table>
<tr>
<th>header</th>
<th>header</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
```
- Engineering (group)
- Mobile (group)
- Mobile Milestone
- iOS (project)
- Milestone 1.2
- Android (project)
- Milestone 1.2
- Samsung (group)
- Samsung Label
- Samsung Milestone
- Handy (project)
- Handy Milestone
- Handy Label
```
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Notice that for the group label `~Samsung Label`, we can only reference it by referencing it in the project.
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