If a page starts with a bulleted list, there's no way to put the cursor "in front of" the list styling. If you want to add a non-list paragraph, you have to make a new, blank first bullet item and then remove the list formatting from the paragraph.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52032
To reproduce:
1: Load a page in VE that starts with a bulleted list e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Thryduulf/sandbox4&oldid=575308394
2: Try to add text before the first bullet.
It is possible that fix for bug 52302 might also resolve this issue.
Seems to be resolved - checked on the page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Thryduulf/sandbox4&oldid=575308394.
The text is easily added on a new line before the first bullet.