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Re: Link labels and APA citations

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 20, 2014 6:09PM

On 21/10/2014 00:57, Olaf Drümmer wrote:
> Just to propose a small thought experiment:
>
> … if the link stops working in the future - what is more suitable:
>
> [a] to have the title linked, pointing to a nonfunctional URL?
> [b] to have the link sitting on the URL pointing to a non-functional URL?
>
> Which is semantically more appropriate?

In both cases you have a broken link. Trying to make a semantic
distinction is splitting hairs, I'd say (otherwise, if - as I suspect -
you're saying [b] is more appropriate, let's apply the reasoning to all
other links in all our pages?)

P
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