(In reply to comment #0)

(Sorry for carelessly filing a dupe before (bug 50207) - I have checked this
one, but if it is a dupe, you are most welcome to trout me for wasting your
time!)

Ha, no worries; dupe's aren't in any way useless (it reminds us that it's a real problem we need to fix really soon!). It's mostly just that it's a waste of your time. :-(

1. Edit [[testwiki:VisualEditor:Links]] in VE
2. Make a selection like
   
   Golden Gate National Recreation [Area is the] best
   
   (partly inside the link, partly outside it)
3. Click the "Link" toolbar button and make a link to any page
4. Click in the word "Area" to move the cursor there

Two link icons appear in the floating toolbar.

5. Save page > Review changes

Wikitext output has two links side-by-side, pointing to the same target.

Yeah, this is definitely a fail on our part (and a regression!). Thanks for the spot; assigning to Ed.

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/70644 (Gerrit Change I1cab7f3cc4fc9589eced01ad38c59fe5b9622a57)

Merged and we'll push this to production in the next hour or so.