https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50609

James Forrester <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|Unprioritized               |Normal
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |ASSIGNED
          Component|General                     |Editing Tools
                 CC|                            |[email protected]
           Assignee|[email protected]    |[email protected]
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
            Summary|Cancelling out of adding a  |VisualEditor: Cancelling
                   |reference adds an empty     |out of adding a reference
                   |reference                   |adds an empty reference
           Severity|normal                      |minor

--- Comment #2 from James Forrester <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Note that this doesn't happen until you hit "Create reference" inside the
> first dialogue box, so you have arguably told it to create a reference ...
> but this will confuse people, because modal dialogue boxes in applications
> usually cancel out your actions if you just keep hitting the X.

Agreed. We'll get this fixed.

> Arguably, it shouldn't create a reference if it's got nothing to put into
> the reference.

Are you telling users they're not allowed to do what they want?! ;-) I think
that the number of users irritated by just silently munching references created
as blank ("so I can come back to it later!") would be non-zero.

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