That makes sense.

In T129546#5098651, @osorio-juan-microsoft wrote:

In T129546#5098455, @mingle wrote:

@DLynch hmm, am I going crazy or missing something?

Also, I'm pasting from sources within the browser outside of the Mediawiki instance. Either from the URL bar, or copy/pasting from plain text on a page. Both seem to be converted to external links on test2.

I think you are talking about different things. You are pasting the plain text https://google.com/foobar which gets interpreted as a link. This issue addresses pasting a link (from a webpage, or other rich text source). In the latter, what is in the clipboard is an actual HTML link (<a href="https://google.com/foobar">Foobar</a>).

Try copying this one: foobar

@DLynch hmm, am I going crazy or missing something?

@Esanders, thanks for merging.