@upahill: Are you sure you ticked the box? Your link seems to be shortening okay for me: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moel_Famau
@MmeLindt: Could be an idea, but we don't want to impose it upon unsuspecting MNers, who may not know about the feature and call for our immediate resignation because a link they didn't want linked got linked anyway. Or something like that.
@PaperView: Could do, we've got the technology in place to do this, and it would make the page a bit cleaner I think.
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