It disappears in VE for me too.

1. modify the page (add a ' ' anywhere)
2. 'Save page' and 'review your changes'

The diff 'inserts'

[[File:Pieve San Giovanni.jpg|thumb|200px|San Giovanni Battista]]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walton_%28company%29&diff=567155604&oldid=565055473 This might be related (not sure how they managed to remove the bracket!)

I actually moved the above comment to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52575 . Thanks.

Confirming. To make the description more clear: even if in view mode you can see the name in red of the missing image and the caption, with VisualEditor you won't see a thing, and therefore it's impossible to edit or delete the image object.

There is a test page at

http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/MissingImageVEtest

I found about this while trying to remove the captions in an article of two images that had been deleted at Commons:

http://ca.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Remedios_Varo&oldid=11208969

The only way to do this is editing source the old way.

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50788 ***