Steps to reproduce the issue

1. create a link or button on a page with the following link:

2. create a menu entry for create article e.g. new-article (alias)

Expected result

When clicking the link or button to create the new article the edit form (empty article) should be shown on the menu entry page new_article
or, if that menu is not set on the view the button was pressed on.

url in browser > [mydomain]/new-article

Actual result

The edit form (empty article) is opened on the frontpage of the website. Thus showing all frontpage active module positions.

url in browser >[mydomain]/?view=form&layout=edit

When you have for the frontpage a main_body position active (that displays a module instead of content, then the edit form is not shown at all (it shows the main_body module)

System information (as much as possible)

Database Version 5.6.36-82.0-log
Database Collation utf8_general_ci
Database Connection Collation utf8mb4_general_ci
PHP Version 7.0.21
Web Server Apache
WebServer to PHP Interface cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version Joomla! 3.7.3 Stable [ Amani ] 4-July-2017 08:03 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version Joomla Platform 13.1.0 Stable [ Curiosity ] 24-Apr-2013 00:00 GMT
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0

Additional comments

Editing an article does work correct as this gets 'routed' to the category name.
url in browser >[mydomain]/categorymemuname?view=form&layout=edit
clicking the menu item new_article also works correct as this routes to [mydomain]/new_article where no modules are active.
I have tried to not use the return= part of the link, but that makes no difference