From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback#Bold_and_nowiki.2C_other_markup

If you add a nowiki tag by itself, the angle brackets get escaped out (<nowiki>, or does just plain </nowiki> work here at Bugzilla?). If you add a nowiki tag plus some wikimarkup, like an asterisk at the start of a line or bold text, it doesn't. This results in unpaired tags, sometimes functional wikimarkup, and always unexpected results.

Try this:

• You need a </nowiki> tag '''here'''.

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