Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-35301431-20140726034038/@comment-452-20140726103001

Yes, this is one of the things the new Visual Editor does. (see history for the VE note.)

While I think the Visual Editor would probably run into fewer problems if it stopped trying to "correct" things, I haven't actually complained about this specific case has I haven't see it cause any ill-effects.

If you think that the new Visual Editor shouldn't be doing this, let Staff know via Special:Contact. They're still working on the Visual Editor doing these things, and there are still other similar problems with things being automatically changed while editing.

(Personally, I think that automatic changes which the editor does not explicitly agree to are wrong, because we are supposed to be responsible for the changes we make - so the software should not be acting in our names. It also leads others to believe that those editors are making the changes, as in this case.)