[Wikipedia-l] Questionmark Links Considered Harmful

[Neil Harris]

Brion VIBBER wrote:

 > 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)
 >
Yes, I remember that. It was much clearer than the current way of
linking a phrase.
Can we have it back, please?

Neil