When you want to turn the text of a link into italic, the VisualEditor inserts the appropripriate wikimarkup inside the link brackets while the customary way is to insert these outside of the link.
see eg this edit of mine:
When you want to turn the text of a link into italic, the VisualEditor inserts the appropripriate wikimarkup inside the link brackets while the customary way is to insert these outside of the link.
see eg this edit of mine: