diff --git a/src/components/note-retargeting/NoteDropTarget.test.tsx b/src/components/note-retargeting/NoteDropTarget.test.tsx
index 4efcffa2..e7438b0a 100644
--- a/src/components/note-retargeting/NoteDropTarget.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/note-retargeting/NoteDropTarget.test.tsx
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ describe('NoteDropTarget', () => {
 
     const dragStartData = createMockDataTransfer()
     fireEvent.dragStart(screen.getByTestId(`draggable-note:${NOTE_PATH}`), { dataTransfer: dragStartData })
+    expect(dragStartData.effectAllowed).toBe('linkMove')
 
     const target = screen.getByText('CircleCI Series').parentElement
     expect(target).not.toBeNull()
diff --git a/src/components/note-retargeting/noteDragData.ts b/src/components/note-retargeting/noteDragData.ts
index 25adc4fe..393685ee 100644
--- a/src/components/note-retargeting/noteDragData.ts
+++ b/src/components/note-retargeting/noteDragData.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ let activeDraggedNotePath: string | null = null
 
 export function writeDraggedNotePath(event: DragEvent<HTMLElement>, notePath: string): void {
   activeDraggedNotePath = notePath
-  event.dataTransfer.effectAllowed = 'move'
+  event.dataTransfer.effectAllowed = 'linkMove'
   event.dataTransfer.setData(NOTE_DRAG_MIME, notePath)
   event.dataTransfer.setData('text/plain', notePath)
 }
diff --git a/tests/smoke/note-drop-wikilink.spec.ts b/tests/smoke/note-drop-wikilink.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..98e538af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/smoke/note-drop-wikilink.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import { test, expect, type Page } from '@playwright/test'
+import path from 'path'
+import { createFixtureVaultCopy, openFixtureVault, removeFixtureVaultCopy } from '../helpers/fixtureVault'
+
+let tempVaultDir: string
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {
+  tempVaultDir = createFixtureVaultCopy()
+  await openFixtureVault(page, tempVaultDir)
+})
+
+test.afterEach(async () => {
+  removeFixtureVaultCopy(tempVaultDir)
+})
+
+async function openNote(page: Page, title: string) {
+  await page.getByTestId('note-list-container').getByText(title, { exact: true }).click()
+  await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: title, level: 1 })).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 })
+}
+
+test('dragging a note into the rich editor inserts a canonical wikilink', async ({ page }) => {
+  await openNote(page, 'Note B')
+
+  const editor = page.locator('.bn-editor')
+  await expect(editor).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 })
+  await editor.locator('p').last().click()
+  await page.keyboard.press('End')
+  await page.keyboard.press('Enter')
+
+  const draggedNotePath = path.join(tempVaultDir, 'project', 'alpha-project.md')
+  await page.getByTestId(`draggable-note:${draggedNotePath}`).dragTo(editor)
+
+  await expect(editor.locator('.wikilink[data-target="project/alpha-project"]')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 })
+})