Forum:CT Archive/Linking in articles

This one's pretty straightforward, folks: it's recently come to my attention that there is actually no official rule on when to link subjects in our articles.

While reviewing Coruscant Security Force, I meantioned that everything should be linked once in the intro, once in the infobox, and once on its first mention in the main body, something we have done (at least on the GAN and FAN) for quite a while now. However, Coruscantfan pointed out that he'd discussed the matter with a couple other users already, and they'd found that there was no actual policy on the matter; and after reviewing the LG and the MoS myself, I found that they were correct.

Therefore, I propose that we add the following clause to the MoS:

"A subject should be linked once upon its first appearance in the article's infobox, once upon its first mention in the article's intro, and once upon its first mention in the article's main body."

This could be seen as an insignificant matter, but I think it would be in our best interest to keep everything consistent. This is also one of those "let's make a real rule out of something we already do anyway" things, but again, I think it's best to make it a rule for the sake of consistency inn our articles.

As always, please bring up any new voting options or wording tweaks to the proposed clause in the discussion section. Thanks. Jonjedigrandmaster ( Talk ) 00:22, October 2, 2010 (UTC)

For the proposal

 * 1) Jonjedigrandmaster  ( Talk ) 00:22, October 2, 2010 (UTC)