Thanks, that was what I needed. My concern was that on some lengthy pages, someone may jump to a section of the page not containing the reference and miss the fact that one exists, but I guess everything has a tradeoff.
---Mike
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:32 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Protocol/Etiquette
2008/10/28 DESLIPPE, MICHAEL CIV DCMA CIV DFAS MICHAEL.DESLIPPE@dfas.mil:
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 isalways 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?
Usually, we (on the English Wikipedia, at least) only link the first occurrence of any given term. If there is a section of the page that may be linked to directly, then you may want to link the first occurrence of the term in that section, too.
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