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Rick.Rain asked me to help him making a link displayed ‘‘in full’’. I tried and it didn’t help. If I use square brackets around the link it only turns it into [1]. We don’t want that. He asked me to post a report about a bug. So, I am … In his article http://www.wikihow.com/Open-a-Design-Contest-at-48HoursLogo.com in STEP 1 a link is NOT fully displayed, and it should . I personally know it’s a bug because I did not have this problem for last 1 1/2 years or so. This my article: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-the-Mozilla-Thunderbird-Forum and others displayed links fully. Please ask the engineers to get this fixed as Rick is concerned about it looking wrong… Thanks guys.

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Hmm, I fiddled with the link and couldn’t get it to work either. Replacing the link with a word (see what the article looks like now) seems to work, so that’s what I did for the time being. If Rick or you don’t like it that way though, feel free to revert me and change it back.:slight_smile:

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Hi @Connor Fleming, thank you for playing around .:slight_smile:You know at least the “http” part, when clicked on it , opened the link up. Best would be if this bug is fixed. It’s Rick’s article. We will let him decide how he wants.:slight_smile:

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Of course.:slight_smile:

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I already asked him on his talk page.:slight_smile:

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Great! Thanks Laura.:slight_smile:

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If he wants the URL in there, he could always do [ 48hourslogo.com 48hourslogo.com ] (with ‘’’ for bolding too, if he wants it):slight_smile:

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It looks better the way it is now, I fine with leaving it that way. Thank you all for your help!

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@Anna , see the square brackets around a link DID work here, but they do not work inside his article. Can you have them fix a bug???:slight_smile:We never know when it may affect any of our articles. What happens if we put ‘’’ around? They make a link bold but not clickable, right? You are welcome, @Rick.Rain .

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Laura: within the bolded first sentence, the link will stop at the point of punctuation, so if you include it as above, the 48hourslogo part will be clickable, and it will stop at the .com. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, though? The link is clickable regardless - it doesn’t have to extend to the whole URL, and if you want it to look cleaner, you can use two different approaches, similar to what Connor did:

  • Visit the [ 48hourslogo.com the 48hourslogo website].
  • or
  • Go to the 48hours logo website. You can find it at http://www.48hourslogo.com .
    Yep, adding the ‘’ will extend the boldness but not affect the link. But to be honest, it’s more often the case that added links have to be removed rather than reformatted anyway, per our External Links policy. Since the focus is on how-tos, rather than providing outside links and downloads, I don’t think the link appearance itself affects whether the steps are helpful? The ideal situation is for the majority of links around the site to be references, in the style of our guide to referencing sources – those ones are the ones that are most in keeping with our links policy, overall. I suspect there is no easy fix for the way the links display, but I’m curious - is there a particular reason you’re concerned about the whole link being clickable within the first sentence? I might be missing something, but is there a reason you see this affecting the helpfulness of the articles?
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@Anna , regarding " … it’s more often the case that added links have to be removed rather than reformatted anyway, per our External Links policy …" yes, I am aware about “External Links Policy”. But still a lot of links are DIRECTLY related to the article’s content. I am not particularly concerned about it since the “http” is clickable and opens a site. The reason I think this is a bug is because my article mentioned in my original post its links are all displayed fully. You are saying there is nothing wrong about the links, no bugs. That is where I disagree with you.

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Thanks for passing it on, Laura. I hear your concerns and will share them with the engineers. As things stand now, you can use one of the two approaches above, as you have in your own article (the reason it displays in full in your article is because you used the second of those two methods, with the link being after the colon rather than within the first bolded sentence). This link display quirk may be something the engineers can fix at some point, but there are likely priorities above this, since linking isn’t generally the main focus or point of our articles. I do understand that there are cases, like articles on how to install given software, where linking is important, but at the same time, encouraging lots of linking in general leads spammers to think this is okay, and ends up in more folks adding drive-by links to all sorts of articles, against policy; that’s why overall we try to limit the link additions to genuine sources whenever possible. I’ll pass the feedback on; the other linking methods I described will work in the meantime. I hope they help. Thanks for posting about the concern:slight_smile:

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@Anna , of course it’s not a first priority. I understand. Regarding your statement: “(the reason it displays in full in your article is because you used the second of those two methods, with the link being after the colon rather than within the first bolded sentence)” . I can not remember HOW I typed it. LOL But I do understand your point. Thanks, Anna.:slight_smile:

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Thanks to you too, Laura! Hope you have a great weekend:slight_smile:

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Thank you @Anna . I hope you do, too.:slight_smile: