[Wikipedia-l] Re: page fragment links

[Toby Bartels]

Kurt Jansson wrote:

>I don't like the idea. Having an index above the article is a good
>idea, but linking into an article is not. I makes the Wikipedia more
>static. Headings will change, articles will be completely rewritten with
>a new structure, and people shouldn't worry about it ("Hmm, I'll better
>leave it like it is, or xx links will be broken").

This is a good point.
For my purposes, I'd be happy if the functionality were limited to
links within a single article, which removes this problem.
Of course, if an article is a reasonable length,
then this functionality is only a convenience, not a necessity.
I would agree that we should hold off on this pending further discussion.


-- Toby Bartels
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