Link conventions
I can’t keep track of where I read anything anymore, but I’m pretty sure I’ve read some strong convictions against links called “Link” or “Here”. But the screenshot below, from Wikipedia’s “In the News” today highlights one of my frustrations with embedded links:
The links are pretty messy:
NASA == Wikipedia entry on NASA
rings (first time) == Rings_of_Rhea on Wikipedia
Saturnian moon == moons_of_Saturn on Wikipedia
Rhea == Wikipedia enty of the moon Rhea
rings == planetary_rings on Wikipedia
moon == moon on Wikipedia
Two links with the same name pointing to different things, no link that points to the announcement or the evidence, three words abutting which look like one link, but are in fact two. Bleh. And “(picture)” refers to a picture at the top of the module.
Now, part of the problem is, presumably, that Wikipedia doesn’t want to point to the actual news story. But this is a perfect example of why you can’t always embed links.