Why did this question still have a "duplicate error" link?

Question

In Why don't we pluralize "foot" in measurements? I noticed there was still the link to the duplicate question, even if the question has been re-opened.

Should not the link be supposed to be removed, once the question is re-open? It doesn't seem to automatically happen.

> **Possible Duplicate:**  
> [“Forty foot” or “forty feet”?](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/28433/forty-foot-or-forty-feet)  

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Answer 1

This does not happen automatically, so edit it out if necessary.

Answer 2

This has been recently fixed: The text about the duplicated question is removed when the question is reopened, without anyone having to manually remove the automatically inserted text.