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== Singular Links ==
== Singular Links ==
Noting your recent edit comment, I would have to say a word of caution. In my opinion, a link ought to be to the main title of an article. If the article's name is plural, that should be used; if singular, that should be used. The wiki does provide some support for redirection of a plural to the singular-titled article, but using that redirection in a link makes the wiki less robust, because if the redirection were ever changed or removed, the link would no longer work, whereas that cannot be a problem with an article name. The article name link, pluralized such as you have noticed it, would, however, be preserved and function as before. It's a nit, perhaps, but as an engineer I encountered more than my share of such noisome little oversights in code. It's a waste of maintenance time and effort, sometimes outsized in its effect. One never wants a change to break what shouldn't have been broken if a little foresight is used. [[User:Giles|Giles]] ([[User talk:Giles|talk]]) 16:45, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Noting your recent edit comment, I would have to say a word of caution. In my opinion, a link ought to be to the main title of an article. If the article's name is plural, that should be used; if singular, that should be used. The wiki does provide some support for redirection of a plural to the singular-titled article, but using that redirection in a link makes the wiki less robust, because if the redirection were ever changed or removed, the link would no longer work, whereas that cannot be a problem with an article name. The pluralized article name, such as you have noticed it, would, however, be preserved and function as before. It's a nit, perhaps, but as an engineer I encountered more than my share of such noisome little oversights in code. It's a waste of maintenance time and effort, sometimes outsized in its effect. One never wants a change to break what shouldn't have been broken if a little foresight is used. [[User:Giles|Giles]] ([[User talk:Giles|talk]]) 16:45, 12 January 2024 (UTC)