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VE and wiki-italic syntax for links can create unneeded apostrophes
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In [[Busan International Comedy Festival]], VE did this error: [[Gag Concert|''Gag Concert'']]'',''

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Busan_International_Comedy_Festival&action=edit&oldid=679520477

the correct simplified syntax would be

''[[Gag Concert|]],''

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And in general, the truly correct syntax would be ''[[Gag Concert]]'', (comma outside the italics): people using VE often don't see that they include punctuation or whitespace characters in italics/bold, which requires a lot of work form other people to fix this.

Aklapper renamed this task from VE and wiki-italic syntax to VE and wiki-italic syntax for links can create unneeded apostrophes.Sep 7 2015, 6:45 PM
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