If you want to link an item using (url=INSERT ITEM LINK HERE)Item Name(/url) (but using square brackets) on the mmo-champion forums, you have to use the database on this site. Thats fine, but its a little tricky to get to when you are replying to a thread. I have to open another tab of the homepage, then click on the database and find what I need, opening another two tabs in total.
I have 2 suggestions:
1) On the quick navigation bar at the top of the page, just above the advert, put a link to the database on there while we are on the forum pages. At the moment, the only page the link is on there from is the homepage, which is a little annoying.
2) Have a little box on each item in the database that lets you copy and paste the URL code into the post, in the format I used above. It would work similarly to the way the little red link box works on wowhead by copying the spell into the game.
For example, if I wanted to link reclaimed Asscandy, at the moment I have to open the database, find it, write the (url=)(/url), copy and paste the URL of the page into the url= box, then copy and paste the name of the item into the part between the brackets so I don't misspell anything. TO make it easier, there would be a box that already has that written in it and you can simple copy and paste it into a forum post, like
Reclaimed Ashkandi, Greatsword of the Brotherhood