"Outside Links"

As long as I have been @ PM, I think I had never followed the Outside Links link from the Information nodelet: I just tried it now and noticed that it brings to a page that says

This is obsolete. See Where can I find more information on... instead!

Back to the PerlMonks FAQ

Ain't it somewhat awkward? Wouldn't the first link better point to the referenced page in the first place or just be omitted at all?

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Re: "Outside Links" by andyford (Curate) on Sep 10, 2007 at 16:38 UTC
Let me guess: removing the node named "Outside Links" would leave things that link to "Outside Links" hanging. Some folks believe that pages should never be removed. I seem to remember reading that at w3schools or something. non-Perl: Andy Ford	[reply]
Re^2: "Outside Links" by blazar (Canon) on Sep 12, 2007 at 07:49 UTC
Let me guess: removing the node named "Outside Links" would leave things that link to "Outside Links" hanging. I was not suggesting that and that's not what happened. In fact Outside Links still exists. It was just a matter of massaging the link in the Information nodelet.	[reply]
Re: "Outside Links" by andyford (Curate) on Sep 10, 2007 at 16:44 UTC
Interestingly, my Information nodelet has the direct link to "More Info" and not the "Outside Links". non-Perl: Andy Ford	[reply]
Re^2: "Outside Links" by jdporter (Paladin) on Sep 10, 2007 at 16:45 UTC
Interestingly Not really. It was fixed between the time the OP posted and you checked. A word spoken in Mind will reach its own level, in the objective world, by its own weight	[reply]
Re^3: "Outside Links" (vague--) by tye (Sage) on Sep 10, 2007 at 18:05 UTC
I don't like "More Info" as a link title. It is vague to the point of making me unlikely to follow it, especially if I were looking for what is actually collected there. "Other Info Sources" seems a better short description. - tye	[reply]
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