On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:51:15 -0700, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com gave utterance to the following:
brion vibber wrote:
We have allowed such links since nearly a year ago, but you had to make an anchor yourself by putting in some HTML tag with an 'id="anchorname"' attribute.
Sounds cool. But why not just make another article?
Because we have (whether you like them or not) articles such as http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation%2C_aerospace_and_aeronautical... which help reduce the number of stub articles and are much easier to follow than the equivalent wiktionary article (just look at the disambiguation article for [[pitch]]. In fact - links to disambign articles are a perfect use. You can make it clear what sense of a word you are linking to.