I just noticed that the text for a question put on hold as 'no longer reproducible' (e.g. int minus unsigned long has unexpected results— now only visible to 10k users as it has, correctly, been deleted) still has a link to https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve.
Transcription:
"This question was caused by a problem that can no longer be reproduced or a simple typographical error. While similar questions may be on-topic here, this one was resolved in a manner unlikely to help future readers. This can often be avoided by identifying and closely inspecting the shortest program necessary to reproduce the problem before posting."
The 'shortest program necessary to reproduce the problem' link uses the old help/mcve URL, and not to the new https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example URL. The link works; that is not in dispute. It is simply a question of consistency. The other close reason for the question uses the new URL in it.
Cosmetic? Yes. Consistency? Undoubtedly! (I'm infested by hobgoblins, or a little mind, or whatever else Emerson complained of.)
Proposed fix
The autogenerated text should probably use the new canonical link, or at least it should not use the MCVE name if you want to expunge the memory of MCVE.
For those with short memories, or who weren't paying attention in May 2019:
•A less awkward name for MCVE
•MCVExit Redux
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
