User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Pausing UCP migrations to resolve some critical blockers/@comment-3218221-20200902000444/@comment-3218221-20200902031625


 * without this people are going to copy the full URL

Perhaps. Then again, if you're a user who normally types ArticleName into Source Editor anyway, and are now pulling up a page to link, then why would you copy the url when you could just copy the article title? The people who copy article links are going to continue doing that regardless, while I should hope editors who normally go to ArticleName efforts will know to copy the article title.

I've seen anon users copy full URLs when editing articles long before UCP was on the horizon. Those inexperienced users weren't using Link Suggest (if that title is referring to this tool) in the first place.

At any rate, you're right that "nice-to-have" was too mild on my part. I went through the whole "look up article, copy long article title, return to editing" myself recently, and certainly sorely missed the ability; the loss of it is an inconvenience that slows down an already freshly slow editing experience (slow courtesy of UCP).