Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

VE's automatic citation template insertion appears to mangle citation author data. Here's how to reproduce it:

*Open a sandbox page and edit it in VE.
*Add some text.
*Click the "Cite button.
*Click Automatic.
*Put https://www.brookings.edu/research/in-central-new-york-a-test-of-the-chips-and-science-acts-promise-for-economic-revitalization/ into the URL box.
*Save the citation.

What happens?:
*Notice that instead of parsing the page's author metadata ("Joseph Parilla, Xavier de Souza Briggs, and Mark Muro") reasonably into individual authors (the best outcome), or inserting all of the author metadata into |author= (not great, but easy to detect and fix), VE does this: |last=Muro |first=Joseph Parilla, Xavier de Souza Briggs, and Mark which is much worse, and more difficult to fix, especially if the original source disappears from the web.

What should have happened instead?:
The Cite button should generate a citation with author names split correctly, either in to author1=, author2=, etc., or last1=, first1=, last2=, first2=, etc.

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