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    My gut feeling is that this is an edge case on most sites. If you're not currently closing a huge number of questions as duplicates, I doubt there'll be a regular need to change or expand links... But, we'll see how it pans out - easy enough to track how often moderators are called on to do this. Commented Mar 4, 2017 at 19:23
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    @Shog9 We have 1965 questions closed as duplicate out of a total of 9533 closed questions. That's just over 20% of our closures are duplicates. Per question close stats, duplicate has been 5% of the closures over the past 30 days. It would be easier if more people could edit these before the duplicate questions fell off the recently asked questions. Maybe the data team should see if this really is an edge case? Commented Mar 4, 2017 at 19:33
  • 5%, yes, but that's 21 questions @Thomas - maybe one per business day. If every single one of them required editing, that might be considered a small burden, but how many actually need it? Commented Mar 5, 2017 at 18:49