Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Editor strips out manual anchors/reply

Hey, sorry about this - we've been dropping empty annotations in general (  or  ) but we're working on fixing this very soon - see 48605.

On your point about conversion, I think this is the wrong approach for a number of reasons. Firstly, VisualEditor shouldn't convert anything for anyone without them asking us to do it (otherwise we'd be disrupting the wikis). Secondly, though for a very few things we could probably come up with rules that all wikis would like, some rules differ (e.g. is it == Heading == or ==Heading== ?; one new line after headings or two?; at the end of a page, should it be references, then external links, then persondata, then categories, then langlinks, or some other order? etc.); VisualEditor has to work for all wikis at once. Finally, converting to use a template would mean that that template must be available on all wikis (including ones not run by Wikimedia), over-writing what might be there already, and worse, must only change in a globally co-ordinated way. I don't think this would be a good idea for anyone.