It is impossible to reuse references inside an image caption (in the media dialog sub-editor)
Given the following page, being edited in VisualEditor:
Foo.<ref>asd</ref> <references />
- Open the dialog to insert a media file at the beginning of the page. Edit the caption inside the dialog.
- Note that Cite → Re-use is unavailable, even though there is one reference already.
This works correctly when editing the caption in the main editing surface.