When the page ends with an unclosed HTML comment, content added afterwards appears inside the comment
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	Mar 20 2022, 1:21 AM

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When the page ends with an unclosed HTML comment, content added afterwards appears inside the comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=1077554813

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Mentioned In: T335660: DiscussionTools doesn't automatically close open html comments (-->) when posting
Mentioned Here: T252464: Stop using autoInserted* flags incorrectly during html2wt when not in round-trip-testing mode
T284023: DiscussionTools doesn't handle unclosed nowiki in previous section.

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matmarex created this task.Mar 20 2022, 1:21 AM

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Is there any reason for us to try to deal with this edge case beyond saying "Fix the wikitext" ? Please reopen if so.

Well, just the usual reason that it makes Parsoid-based editing tools unreliable? From my perspective, this is no different than T252464 or T284023 (although I understand that internally, these cases are handled very differently).

matmarex mentioned this in T335660: DiscussionTools doesn't automatically close open html comments (-->) when posting.May 1 2023, 12:17 PM

This does appear to be the expected behavior - but wondering if perhaps "unclosed html comment tags" could be included in lint errors for cleanup?

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