[Wikipedia-l] Questionmark Links Considered Harmful

[Brion VIBBER]

Toby Bartels wrote:
> I've been using highlighted links since before I knew what they were.
> I think that I must have clicked on the option by accident or something.
> Whenever I see the "?" links, I'm shocked at how uninterpretable it is,
> *especially* when the "?" follows a link of more than one word.

It used to was that if the link was more than one word, the whole thing 
got surrounded by brackets, ie:

  ...throughout the history of Foobaria? there were...
  ...throughout the [history of Foobaria]? there were...

This seems to have disappeared in phase III.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)