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Nowiki added around a ref tag with a ref name containing unbalanced quotation marks
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Description

Steps to reproduce:

  1. In the wikitext editor, create a ref name that has an unbalanced number of quotation marks: <ref name="Foo>Citation goes here.</ref>
  1. Open the page in VisualEditor. (See the visible wikitext?)
  1. Make any change and save the page.
  1. Find the nowiki tags in the diff.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=649197137

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