Hi guys,
W3 cannot be the shortest one compared to W1 and W5. Therefore, if we see a situation like the one on your chart we have to look for something else, maybe an extended W3 going all the way up where you have the end of W5 now?
So, once again: W3 cannot be shorter than BOTH W1 AND W5, but can be shorter than any one of them.
It's one of the key EW RULES (those that we cannot bend). If it were a guideline, we could have pretended not to see it...