Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-3423125-20170928191516

I've been trying to clean up the Synopses on some of the Silver Age comics, and I've noticed that occasionally, a character's name will be linked to a page for that character. It seems like a little bit of unnecessary duplication, since there's already a link on the character list, but, no big deal...

Anyway, sometimes, rather than taking you to the character's page, the link sends you to the character's DISAMBIGUATION page. Is that what we want? Why send the reader to a disambiguation page, when we already know which version of the character we're talking about. That just confuses the reader, right?

Should I a) leave the disambiguation link alone; b) change it to link directly to the character's page; or c) remove the link entirely?

And while I'm on the subject, sometimes a character will receive *multiple* links to their page, every time the character's name is mentioned in the synopsis. Is that a bit much? Do we suffer from "link creep"? Will we become linkaholics?

And finally, sometimes, when only one occasion of a character's name receives a link, it's the first appearance of the name in the synopsis that receives the link (which makes some sense). Other times, it'll just be a random occurrence of the name in the middle of the synopsis that's linked (which makes no sense).

Are there any...policies isn't the right word, but guidelines, or even better, a stylebook, on writing a synopsis? If not, I can work on one. I was a writer for the Official Index, and while I don't claim to be any more of an authority than anyone else here, someone at Marvel thought enough of my work/style to pay me for my efforts.

In any case, I'd appreciate any thoughts on my specific questions above. Thanks, guys! 