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Pasting <a> tags without href inserts link to null
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Description

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Find an old page that still uses <a name="foo"> instead of <span id="foo">, e.g. http://www.dorn.org/docs/selfhtml/index.htm
  2. Copy the content (in the above example the first line "SELFHTML: Version 8.0 vom 27.10.2001, Autor: Stefan Münz" is enough).
  3. Paste it in VE.

Expected: No link is created, as there is no link. In this case the content should be inserted as bold text.
Actual: An external link with target null is created, i.e. in this case the underlying wikitext is [null '''SELFHTML: Version 8.0 vom 27.10.2001, Autor: Stefan Münz'''].

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Change 424559 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Convert href-less links to spans

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/424559

Change 424562 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Convert href-less links to spans

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/424562

Change 424562 merged by jenkins-bot:
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Convert href-less links to spans

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/424562

Change 425104 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Jforrester):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (f7cbfa3f0)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/425104

Change 425104 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (f7cbfa3f0)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/425104

Change 424559 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Convert href-less links to spans

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/424559

Deskana triaged this task as Medium priority.