You need to be trust level 3 and you can just use the same link as the preformatted text but without the quote marks.
Trust level can be viewed in your profile, Click on your profile picture and then on View profile.
I found this
You have to do quite a bit to get trust level 3 or have been invited to a closed beta.
I didn’t have enough views to start with and used a macro program to pause for 5 seconds then do a page down then repeat it forever on a number of long threads and left my computer for a while. Never have the program active even if it’s down next to the clock when you play Warcraft as it can be counted as botting.