Wikipedia:Shallow references
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This is an information page.
It describes the editing community's established practice on some aspect or aspects of Wikipedia's norms and customs. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.
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This page in a nutshell: Link directly to documents cited, not to higher-level pages on websites where they are hosted. |
Per consensus at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 102#Prohibited (sic) links in January 2013:
When citing a reference, with a URL, the URL should link to the document (web page) cited, not just the home page (or some other high level page) on the site which hosts that document.
