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VisualEditor: Unclosed <dl> and <div> tags caused by absent {{refend}} template cannot be repaired
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Description

Intention:
Remove a line that appears in the last section of a page, underneath a section that has an unclosed/unpaired {{refbegin}} template.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=592187387 in VisualEditor.
  1. Try to select anything after the ==Bibliography== section, e.g., anything in the ==External links== section.

Actual Results:
The cursor knows only two positions: before the refbegin template, and in the slug at the bottom of the page. You can't select or edit anything in between.

Reproducible: Always


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz60395

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:00 AM
bzimport added a project: VisualEditor.
bzimport set Reference to bz60395.

I'm not sure what else you could expect VE to do here.

Jdforrester-WMF changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Feb 2 2015, 7:24 PM
Jdforrester-WMF set Security to None.
Aklapper changed the task status from Stalled to Open.Nov 3 2020, 10:27 AM
Aklapper subscribed.

Seven years later, on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chemotherapy&veaction=edit&oldid=592187387 , this shows some transclusion info on the right:

foo-X.png (990×1 px, 282 KB)

Good enough?
Tasks shouldn't be stalled forever.

No reply. Assuming this is done. If not, then please reopen.