[WikiEN-l] Dab page notice

[Charles Matthews]

quiddity wrote
 
> The relevant line (that the template is attempting to summarize) is at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(disambiguation_pages)#Individual_entries
> 
> * To avoid confusing the reader, each bulleted entry should, in almost
> every case, have only one ''navigable'' (blue) link. '''Do not
> wikilink any other words in the line''', for example:
> ** [[Dark Star (song)|"Dark Star" (song)]], by the Grateful Dead<!--
> note: it is not necessary to repeat the word "song" in the description
> as per "keep description to a minimum" below. -->
> ** '''not:''' [[Dark Star (song)|"Dark Star" (song)]], a [[song]] by
> the [[psychedelic]] [[rock band]] [[The Grateful Dead]]
> 
> 
> {{sofixit}} if you think it is wrong.

Thank you for quoting that. It is of course from a discussion page with 37 archived versions, and I have edited the page nonetheless. Here 

'''Do not wikilink any other words in the line'''

is simply wrong advice in some cases. And there is no need to '''shout''' by bolding it.

Charles

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