There was a Parsoid bug to this effect earlier, maybe it came back?

Gabriel - As far as I can tell, this bug is coming from Parsoid rather than VisualEditor - can you confirm? I can replicate in VE and Parsoid master locally.

Can you provide us with a test case and verify that the DOM change looks sane?

To me it looks like the VE is dropping a link (with template encapsulation info) near '165 Pakistan tanks' when editing http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965&oldid=551447483. So it looks like a VE bug to me. Can you verify?

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To me it looks like the VE is dropping a link (with template encapsulation
info) near '165 Pakistan tanks' when editing
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indo-
Pakistani_War_of_1965&oldid=551447483.
So it looks like a VE bug to me. Can you verify?

That bug is fixed in the most recent VE release, which is live on mw.org but hasn't hit enwiki yet. Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Catrope/India-Pakistan and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Catrope/India-Pakistan .

On review, this is already fixed in master and will be deployed (as part of wmf4) to the English Wikipedia on 20 May.