Wikilink

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Requests for comment/Wikilinking policy

“ Different rules apply for links inside a hosted text, in the header section of a page, a text's talk page, and in project-internal wikipages such as policy pages, discussion forums, and user pages.
Links in presentation namespaces The use of wikilinks within the presentation namespaces (primarily the Main and Translation namespaces, but also the Page namespace by extension) is limited by policy.
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Source: Wikisource

Requests for comment/Wikilinking policy

“ An example of heavy wikilinking in encyclopedias is e. g. Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Hudson River. Changing all the extensive internal links into Wikipedia external links would be in accordance with this suggested policy, but the result would be even worse than the current situation. There are often lists of people in some articles and I sometimes meet the situation when some of the people are linked to their author page and others to Wikipedia articles, and you never know where you land prior to trying so. ”
Source: Wikisource

Portrait of John Solomon Rarey John Solomon Rarey,  Scriptorium/Archives/2009-02

“ If we get the principles right, then rules/guidelines can be written and suggested, where the rules don't meet a scenario, people are able to measure against the principle. So let me make a start at this, and others can adapt and build. In Wikisource, to build we wikilink ... (outdent follows) Main namespace Internally link to works Internally link to authors Externally link to definitions, events, etc. (to sister projects) 1 So?
Internally link to publications? Specific mention of people, who are non-authors, though not major focus of a work.
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Source: Wikisource

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