(After I have verified this and written it up properly, I'll move it to the VE project)
Bold gets lost
Links get lost
Bullets are preserved
(After I have verified this and written it up properly, I'll move it to the VE project)
Bold gets lost
Links get lost
Bullets are preserved
Although I keep thinking this is a bug, it's actually intended functionality. See T162291: Autolinking for URLs and magic links (ISBN etc.) not applied when copy-pasting a block of text for one of the other tasks reporting issues similar to this one.