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Ultimatum (Old as dirt)
2015-10-30 15:32:19

All blue tooo

Delete!

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DragonQuestZ Since: Jan, 2001
2015-10-30 15:58:05

That quote and link would be acceptable on the page Website.Agony Booth.

^ And blue links, or more specifically potholes, are only banned for page quotes, not quotes in examples.

Edited by DragonQuestZ I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
Karxrida Since: May, 2012
2015-10-30 16:10:18

I believe blue links are allowed in page quotes under certain circumstances, such as directly name-dropping Creators or Works.

rodneyAnonymous Since: Aug, 2010
2015-10-30 17:26:48

That's because a straight link is not a pothole. It's potholes that aren't allowed in page quotes. (This is a pothole. This is not: Pot Hole.) Links to Work and Creator pages make up 99.9% of the cases where that distinction matters, maybe 100% considering there are other good reasons not to link Main pages in a page quote.

The operative word in the first reply is all. All-blue entries (especially multiple links) are extremely poor style. Personally I think a whole sentence being a pothole is fine, the problem is a sentence being all-blue because every word in it is part of more than one. It looks bad, not everyone can tell there is more than one link there (IMO there should be at least one unlinked word between two words that link to two different pages), and it's almost certainly a "chained Sink Hole".

Edited by rodneyAnonymous Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2015-10-30 17:52:29

Personally, I think a sentence-example being all-blue because of one outside link is sloppy work. You can attach the link to the last two words and it'll still make sense.

All Blue Entry is a flat no in any case.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
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