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When people change a link label on VE, they don't change the link target.
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Users who want to change linked dates on an article sometimes makes it wrong: they change the label, but not the target. The result on the wikitext is [[2015|2016]] instead of [[2016]].

On fr.wp, where it has been reported, there is a regular WikiCleaner report with articles where the date linked is not the same as the targeted page. I've randomly picked up 10 articles on that list: for 9 of them the change has been done by a new user or an IP using VE. On the last article picked, I haven't found the diff.

If people don't understand that they have to correct both label and target, there is possibly a design issue.