https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37939

--- Comment #5 from James Forrester <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> I would warn about automatic changes here. Partially linked words are a
> standard feature of Wikipedia, especially to link the singular substring of
> plural words in languages that generally allow that.
> 
> A nice-to-have feature may be to provide a dialogue box asking: "you have
> only
> marked a part of the word -  do you want to link the entire word?".
> 
> I consider this a low priority enhancement however.

We're talking here about creating links as <a href=Foo>Fooian</a>, and whether
or not they convert to "smart" wikitext ([[Foo]]ian) or to the more boring form
([[Foo|Fooian]]). We're not talking about automatic changes - if the link
hasn't been edited, it shouldn't be changed.

I don't think that the style of wikitext that people create using the
VisualEditor (as opposed to not breaking others' wikitext) is hugely important,
but if you want that to be a specific change, you could create a new bug for
Parsoid (which is responsible for the HTML->wikitext conversion).

This is specifically about creating a link (to whatever target) on some
selection of part of a word, which then on being saved is converted
unintentionally. I.e.: 

Automobile -> <a href=Automatic>Auto</a>mobile -> [[Automatic|auto]]mobile

… whereas it should end up somehow as [[Automatic|auto]]<nowiki />mobile, or we
should stop users for creating it.

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