Links Manager and "Cheating" Error

I don’t quite know if this should be a ticket and if so if it’s not just part of #14530, but yesterday I ran into an issue with the Links Manager.

I have a multisite that was created before the 3.5 depreciation of the links list in core. So, some of my subsets had a links list and some didn’t depending on when they were created. I only clued into this yesterday when starting to migrate a new subsite from an existing WP blog that is quite old.

I know the Links Manager plugin needed to be installed. I also know that on a standalone site you see the following when trying to access that depreciated feature: “If you are looking to use the link manager, please install the Link Manager plugin.” (It helpfully links to the plugin, too.)

On multisite, you see: “Cheating huh?” Or, well, that’s what I saw until I installed the plugin, now I see the error message above.