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VE producing poor quality wikitext for bold and italics

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Albany NY (talkcontribs)

When using the Visual Editor to make a bold wikilink italicized, it produces '''[[link|''link'']]''' instead of '''''[[link]]''''' (see this edit). (I highlighted the bold text and pressed CTRL-I.) This syntax is really messy, makes the source text unnecessarily cluttered, and doesn't follow standard wikitext practices. Are the developers working on fixing this? [As an aside, the VE talk interface on this page feels really difficult to use and is missing many functions. I had to navigate to a different page and work in a standard wikitext editor to get the nowiki tags to work correctly and paste into this window.]

Albany NY (talkcontribs)

Will there be a response to this? Thanks.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Apparently, this is the "correct" way to do it, in terms of wikitext parsing and good HTML. It's not what we're used to, though.

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