VE/Citoid is replacing URLs such as

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/verleumdungsklage-von-e-jean-carroll-gegen-trump-16469341.html

or

https://archive.today/20120529131131/repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&page=1&keyid=1448224&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID

with a short URL (e.g. https://www.faz.net/1.6469341 or http://archive.md/rCCm) which is very bad to use in citations. (for example: if archive.md will be discontinued in future, then we don't have a clue what the original url/article has been, if the information is not mentioned elsewhere inside the ref element.)

in dewiki we are constantly trying to teach people to use the long URLs only. i even operate a bot which replaces short URLs by long urls and gives the users who added the short urls a message that they should use the long URLs only.

Some of them recently complained that they actually used the long URL, but the VE converted it to a short url.

So please remove that feature completely because it will otherwise lead to many broken and unrepairable links in future.

related: T212608