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"Start editing" popup appears even during Permission errors
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When a user tries to edit a page and is unable to do so due to a Permission error, the "Welcome to [wiki]! -Start editing-" popup appears even though the user is not permitted to edit the page, and there is no edit box behind the popup.

(Related: T135682.)

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Deskana moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.

Can you give an example of a page where that occurs? We definitely attempt to handle this correctly, so you have to give a specific example of a case we don't handle right.

For example, in an incognito window (logged out), I do not get a popup on these pages, which I can't edit (for different reasons):

I do get a popup on pages I can edit, such as:

Try editing any page through Tor. (Presumably, a similar response would show up for any blocked proxy/IP/account.)