“ There are several classes of "obvious" hyperlinks for the DNB. Some are simple: the original DNB clearly indicates that a name in the text refers to another article in the DNB. Such indicia include the " [q. v.] " syntax and the " [See...] " syntax. These should all be linked to the appropriate DNB article in article space. In addition, many DNB subjects are also authors in their own right. Many of these have "Author" pages at wikisource. When an author page exists at Wikisource for the subject, we link the initial name in the article to that author page. ”
Quotes from WikiProject DNB/Style Manual ()
“ Our convention is to use the hyphen in the template and the lower-case final letter. Since there is possible confusion, best practice is to create a redirect from {{DNB RB-L}}, rather than assume everybody will always appreciate what is going on. (The current stock of templates may not follow this yet.) NB that independently of all this, there are also templates that are hyphenated because of double-barrelled names: in this case, the original DNB text uses an uppercase letter after the hyphen, and our template uses an uppercase letter after the hyphen. ”
“ Of the 700 or so distinct author footer initials, about 40 are ambiguous. If you create an article with an ambiguous footer template (e.g., {{DNB MB}}) the template will generate instructions on how to create the correct template. Please preview your edit to check for this prompt. The prompt messages take the form of the information that in certain volumes this author is meant by these initials, and in certain other volumes, another author is meant. This will always resolve the ambiguity. Please note that the author abbreviation depends often on the volume, anyway. ”
