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LINKs in REFERENCES
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Started conversation Feb 27, 2009
Your suggested markup snippet
Preparing a Chicken
will work fine, but the title is ignored. The actual title of the entry is used in the sidebar.
Preparing a Chicken
can therefore be shortened to its self-closing version:
This also works for external links in the references section
A sample website
and
are equivalent.
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Out of the REFERENCES tag, in the BODY of the document, the self-closing LINK tag will always produce the title of the article as its linking text.
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External links should always be provided with titles, or else the linking text goes into the sidebar. And this text often doesn't work out of context.
TRiG.
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