For questions on usage of links at MSE (both links to various parts of this site and to other sites).
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What is the preferred way to link references to published material?
I'm asking this since I've already found myself in two minds a couple times about how to refer to a book when answering a question.
I've seen many people link to Google Books previews, when ...
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trouble in quoting a page from Wolfram Alpha
I wanted to put a link to Wolfram Alpha. I have plotted $(n!)^{(1/n)}$ (with parentheses included). But
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Strategic linking to external math/proof sites
Other things being equal I tend to link to Wikipedia pages for definitions and stock proofs, in part because I've been inspired by researching past questions here to fix things there, and it seems to ...
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Creating a Hyperlink in a Comment Box
I am not sure if this has been asked before. Could anyone teach me how to create a hyperlink in a comment box? Posting URL's (especially those that are very long) seems to be a very ugly way of ...
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Using automated solutions, such as WolframAlpha?
I recently answered this question copying a solution directly from WolframAlpha. I want to know if this method is considered valid here on MSE because there're similar problems that can be solved ...
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Special characters in question body stop hyperlink working
There is a question whose hyperlink does not work, i.e. the mouse pointer doesn't change when I move it over the question title.
Here is a screen shot:
This is part of the Unanswered Questions list. ...
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Questions not accessible from main page
It appears that certain questions are not accessible from the main page, e.g. this question:
Re-writing sign basis. I finally got it over the user's page, but the links on the main page or the tag ...
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what links here?
Do we have a "what links here" feature such as that on Wikipedia? One would click on "what links here" and see a list of questions, answers, comments, etc., that link to the question or answer or ...
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How to format links in comments
I wonder how to provide nice links in comments, similar to the links in the question/answers. I tried
<a href="link">link description</a>
and
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Carets stop hyperlinks working.
The caret symbol, ^, stops hyperlinks working, a phenomenon usually seen in links to Wolfram Alpha.
The [description](hyperlink) form:
this works, produced by [this ...
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How to link to a particular answer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Distinguishing between questions and answers in references.
In the past, if I've encountered a particularly good answer to a question, and later found a question for ...
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Distinguishing between questions and answers in references.
I have noticed that users in the know can refer us back precisely to a question on a page of our site or to any specific answer they wish, on the same page.
Here is an example, where we can click ...
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How do you cite a reference in a comment?
If I want to quote a reference in an answer on this site, I use the syntax [Here][1] followed at the end of the answer by ...
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Would it be possible to use something like Wikipedia's templates here?
DISCLAIMER: I've tagged this feature request, but I am aware that such feature will probably difficult to implement. But I'll ask anyway since, I'd like to know the opinion of other users on this.
I ...
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Link Rot Notice: Springer EOM
A lot of us (especially professional mathematicians) here, in posting answers and questions, link to one of the four commonly used resources: Wikipedia, the Springer encyclopedia of mathematics, ...
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Link copying causes misinterpretation in mark-down in comments
In a comment to Henry's answer in a recent question I copied a link from Wikipedia directly from my browser window to the comments box. However, upon submitting the comment, the link was ...
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How to link to a comment?
I was wondering if it is possible to link to a comment? For example, the second comment after this reply Questions about geometric distribution
Thanks!
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What is the proper way to acknowledge an answer posted on another forum / site?
Hi
Math-SE is (obviously) not the only math-discussion forum out there. A poster that wishes to maximize the speed at which his question is answered may well choose to post the same question on more ...
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Permalinks vs. duplicate merging
Suppose that I link (offsite) to an answer that I gave to a question that was later closed as a duplicate, e.g. as I just did to my answer here. Suppose that my answer is later merged into the ...
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How to include a link in the text?
I'd like to share a link in a comment/question/answer hiding the link to some paper and showing instead the title, how can one do this?
Thanks.
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Links / URLs containing special characters are not recognized by markdown
In this answer, I linked to some page within the Wolfram alpha site, and the links did not appear. For example, I will try to link the last word in this sentence. Here is the URL I was trying to link ...
