[Wikipedia-l] Most wanted error

Daniel Mayer maveric149 at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 21 21:33:40 UTC 2002


On Sunday 21 July 2002 12:01 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the wiki counts multiple links to the same article no longer as only one
> link as it did before. Investments is linked many times from the September
> 11 article.
>
>         Regards,
>
>                 jens

Now there is something that really needs to be fixed. Even though proper wiki 
style states that only the first occurrence of a term should be linked, 
oftentimes a table in an article will have something linked as well as the 
text of the same article. 

Some people will look at the table first, others will look at the text first, 
so one can't arbitrarily link just one and not the other. This is especially 
true for tables with standardized layouts (like the element tables or 
organism tables -- either of which would also look weird if certain terms in 
one article's table were not linked but were in other similar articles).  

--maveric149



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