[Wikipedia-l] Protocol/Etiquette

[Marco Chiesa]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:22 PM, DESLIPPE, MICHAEL CIV DCMA CIV DFAS <
MICHAEL.DESLIPPE at dfas.mil> wrote:

> What is the proper protocol when authoring a page that has multiple
> references to the page. For example, if I was writing a page and it
> said:
>
>        The weather in the USA today is warm. The weather in the USA is
> always warm this time of year. That's just the way it is in the USA.
>
> That uses the acronym USA three times. Is the correct protocol to show
> all three occurrences as a link to the page on USA, or just the first
> occurrence of the acronym?
>
> A rule of thumb may be: if you need to scroll the document to find the
wikilink, then duplicating it is a good solution. If you see the same link
10 times in the same screen, 8 are unnecessary and the 9th as well, probably

Marco