Hi,
On Wednesday, March 05, 2003 2:01 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: As I recall, the primary argument against anchors is that they support and encourage long pages.
I fully disagree this argument ! Long pages is an arranging problem not a feature problem. If you think a page is too long, then just split it in 2 parts. I can't understand you private us using a good feature just cause someone can misuse it. Any feature can be misused !
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:42, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: Internal anchors were a feature I added and then removed by the consensus of the community. If you can come up with a /really good/ example of how an internal anchor will make an article better in a way that can't be done without it, and won't sacrific simplicity of editing, then I'm certainly open to putting the feature back.
Imho, the main way anchor can be useful are : - Link the summary to the corresponding part of the article. Even if it is not a "long" article, it can be useful. - Target a particular paragraph in an other article. Useful for encyclopedia and especially for talk page.
An other problem is perhaps we all don't have the same idea about what is a "long" article.
Aoineko (as Guillaume)
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