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<code> tags added around closing bracket of an external link
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In this edit, VE added code tags around the closing bracket ?
And the second time, in addition to adding again code tags, it removes the previous closing code tag, leaving an unbalanced code tag.

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How was "the closing bracket" even available to VisualEditor?

Seeing that all the diffs above are from the same user, I checked the contributions of this user, and sure enough, here is another one and another one and I didn't check everything.

I don't know what HTML Parsoid got from VE, but if there is a way of checking in with the user about their edits (is there some browser extension that interacted badly with VE? .. did they try to enter wikitext?), it might help figuring out this mystery.

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Seeing that all the diffs above are from the same user, I checked the contributions of this user, and sure enough, here is another one and another one and I didn't check everything.

I don't know what HTML Parsoid got from VE, but if there is a way of checking in with the user about their edits (is there some browser extension that interacted badly with VE? .. did they try to enter wikitext?), it might help figuring out this mystery.

The user seems to have gone inactive (no edits for two months). Nothing odd about their browser itself, but perhaps an oddity from a browser plugin, yeah. I'll close as fixed for now.