Thanks, that was what I needed. My concern was that on some lengthy pages, someone may jump to a section of the page not containing the reference and miss the fact that one exists, but I guess everything has a tradeoff. ---Mike -----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:32 PM To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Protocol/Etiquette 2008/10/28 DESLIPPE, MICHAEL CIV DCMA CIV DFAS <MICHAEL.DESLIPPE(a)dfas.mil>il>: Usually, we (on the English Wikipedia, at least) only link the first occurrence of any given term. If there is a section of the page that may be linked to directly, then you may want to link the first occurrence of the term in that section, too. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

Opinions cary. . In my view. never more than once a section, and then only if they are long sections, or the section about that particular thing. Once per normal screen (40 lines or so) is wildly excessive. Assuming people get beyond the first screen, they know how to scroll. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

I was leaning towards once per TOC entry. That way if someone clicks on one part of the TOC, they'll still have a link to the resource. -----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:01 PM To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Protocol/Etiquette link probably That's not a great rule of thumb, though, since different people have different sized screens... _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l