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I just joined the project from being a Wikipedia editor for some time. An idea, if you put a Link to an external website in square brackets between the ref tags the URL disappears, and looks neater, don't you agree?--[[User:OliverM|OliverM]] ([[User talk:OliverM|talk]]) 04:53, 16 July 2013 (CDT) | I just joined the project from being a Wikipedia editor for some time. An idea, if you put a Link to an external website in square brackets between the ref tags the URL disappears, and looks neater, don't you agree?--[[User:OliverM|OliverM]] ([[User talk:OliverM|talk]]) 04:53, 16 July 2013 (CDT) | ||
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| + | Ed: we developed the policy to put external websites in full, so they don’t disappear – this is for two reasons | ||
| + | 1) when the page is printed out, you can see the URL | ||
| + | 2) the URLs have to be real – i.e. it avoids the risk of people clicking on URLs that take them to dangerous sites that can infect their computer | ||
Latest revision as of 21:38, 28 August 2013
Links to external websites
I just joined the project from being a Wikipedia editor for some time. An idea, if you put a Link to an external website in square brackets between the ref tags the URL disappears, and looks neater, don't you agree?--OliverM (talk) 04:53, 16 July 2013 (CDT)
Ed: we developed the policy to put external websites in full, so they don’t disappear – this is for two reasons 1) when the page is printed out, you can see the URL 2) the URLs have to be real – i.e. it avoids the risk of people clicking on URLs that take them to dangerous sites that can infect their computer
