diff --git a/modules/ve/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWLinkTargetInputWidget.js b/modules/ve/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWLinkTargetInputWidget.js
index b427020d4d..1df82f4b60 100644
--- a/modules/ve/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWLinkTargetInputWidget.js
+++ b/modules/ve/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWLinkTargetInputWidget.js
@@ -115,7 +115,11 @@ ve.ui.MWLinkTargetInputWidget.prototype.getLookupMenuItemsFromData = function (
 	}
 
 	// Internal link
-	if ( !pageExists && ( !matchingPages || matchingPages.indexOf( this.value ) === -1 ) ) {
+	if ( !pageExists && ( !matchingPages ||
+		// Run value through mw.Title to avoid treating a match as a mismatch where
+		// normalisation would make them matching (bug 48476)
+		matchingPages.indexOf( new mw.Title( this.value ).toString() ) === -1
+	) ) {
 		items.push( new ve.ui.MenuSectionItemWidget(
 			'newPage',
 			{ '$$': menu$$, 'label': ve.msg( 'visualeditor-linkinspector-suggest-new-page' ) }