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Usage

During the period May 2019 to September 2019 a bug in VisualEditor caused citations to be malformed in some cases. If text was copy-pasted from VisualEditor outside VE's edit-mode, citations would transform into garbled text, for example: <sup>[[Asylum in France#cite%20note-7|[7]—]]</sup>

The garbled text can take many forms but the common string is cite%20note - please search your page for this string and repair the citation before adding it to mainspace.

The error can be reverse engineered in many cases. In the above example it maps to citation #7 in the article Asylum in France. Because citation numbers can change, the #7 has to map from the same time the copy-paste was done. Thus, find the revision time in the source article when the bug was introduced, then find the revision time in the secondary article that equates to this time, and this is the revision where the citation can be found.

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