Hi, in this edit, VE let a user add an incorrectly formatted reference in a template (<ref>...<ref>) without escaping anything, making the article completely damaged. On a following edit, VE made even more damages by adding nowiki tags all over the place.
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I can't reproduce this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=673351534&oldid=671886705
However, when I pasted in the ref, it did not add a wikitext warning. It behaves differently if you type it in rather than pasting.
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Well, it's simple : before VE edit the article was fine, then a user tried to add a reference inside a template parameter using VE and incorrectly formatted it (2 opening ref tags instead of a pair), and instead of escaping the badly formatted parameter, the result saved with VE is a completely trashed article.
What' requested: prevent VE to completely trash an article when someone simply edits a parameter inside a template call... For once, VE should have put nowiki tags around the incorrect ref tags instead of trashing the article. And I doubt that the user saw in VE preview that he had completely trashed the article
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I had checked adding the citation in regular article text, and it was obvious that it didn't look normal. I just checked as a template parameter in that infobox/that article, and when you mistype the ref tags inside a parameter, then the display completely changes. The infobox becomes a full-width mess of monospace wikitext. It was very obvious that something was wrong.