This is an example of unexpected behavior: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Économie_territoriale&diff=prev&oldid=121933123
Steps to reproduce:
- Open that page (or any similar one) in VisualEditor.
- Scroll down to the ==References== section.
- Find a citation that is created with the {{ouvrage}} or a similar citation template and displayed in that section by the {{Références}} template.
- Select and copy the text of that citation.
- Click the "Cite" button and go to Manual > Basic.
- Paste in the citation. (Make changes here, if you want to.)
- Save the page.
The diff shows two unusual results:
- Some of the copied "text" got lost. In particular, it's odd that the title of the book is missing.
- Some of the information is wrapped in HTML tags that label <time> elements and <abbr>eviations .
The editor, who was trying to cite a different page number in the same work, probably hoped that the entire citation template would be copied this way.