[Wikipedia-l] Intro for readers of this list (Was: "Edit this section", TOC implemented)

[Daniel Mayer]

brion vibber wrote:
>We have allowed such links since nearly 
>a year ago, but you had to make an anchor 
>yourself by putting in some HTML tag with 
>an 'id="anchorname"' attribute.

Sounds cool. But why not just make another article?

>The discussion is whether to automatically 
>_create_ anchors from headers, which is 
>needed for Erik's proposed automatic table 
>of contents generation for pages with more 
>than three headers.

Heavens no! That would be ugly and non-standard and should not be a default 
setting (in the same way as the almost as ugly auto header numbering is not 
the default). 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)