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See pipe trick and wiki linking for now.

Somewhere was a long scholarly essay on the semantics of anchor text and where to use such texts that were not the page name, and where not to.

It was probably hidden by sysop vandalism on Meta-Wikipedia or wherever it was. If someone has a copy of any good treatment of this topic, link to it or restore it here, thanks. For instance en: Metaweb: Talk:Taxonomy includes the claim that:

anchor text that differs from the name of the article is also probably a bad idea. A strict discipline of requiring noun phrases and verb phrases that are used as links, to actually be article names or redirects, tends to force the language of articles to reflect the actual terminology used in the field, which is to the advantage of readers to use.

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	''It was probably hidden by [[sysop vandalism]] on [[Meta-Wikipedia]] or wherever it was. If someone has a copy of any good treatment of this topic, link to it or restore it here, thanks. For instance [http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Taxonomy en: Metaweb: Talk:Taxonomy] includes the claim that:''		''It was probably hidden by [[sysop vandalism]] on [[Meta-Wikipedia]] or wherever it was. If someone has a copy of any good treatment of this topic, link to it or restore it here, thanks. For instance [http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Taxonomy en: Metaweb: Talk:Taxonomy] includes the claim that:''

	:anchor text that differs from the name of the article is also probably a bad idea. A strict discipline of requiring [[noun phrase]]s and [[verb phrase]]s that are used as links, to actually be article names or [[redirect]]s, tends to force the language of articles to reflect the actual [[terminology used in the field]], which is to the advantage of readers to use.		:anchor text that differs from the name of the article is also probably a bad idea. A strict discipline of requiring [[noun phrase]]s and [[verb phrase]]s that are used as links, to actually be article names or [[redirect]]s, tends to force the language of articles to reflect the actual terminology used in the field, which is to the advantage of readers to use.