On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:02:27AM +1200, Richard Grevers wrote:
Are there situations where you might need to expand an abbreviation without it being a wiki-link?
Very rarely I think. Usually abbreviation is either known to absolutely everyone, like `kg' or `etc', or specific to some domain of knowledge, and article about it should be written.
I don't agree that there should be an article on each such abbreviation; however, if there is no article, one should just write out the abbrevation in almost all cases. I tend to write out abbreviations like "etc.", "i.e." and "a.o." whenever they occur in an article I am editing.
Andre Engels