Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25917576-20190716124318

Should links that are possessive, include the 's in the link? For example, should Allen's be used instead of Allen's ?

They give this: Allen's and Allen's

I think not. In my opinion, the appearance of the source code absolutely matters. Having it as a piped link makes it more difficult for users to follow, causing a mix of the two methods across the site. It's long, unnecessarily long. Long to the point it could add hundreds of extra bytes to the source, making it difficult to pinpoint things in said source. It doesn't look good either. Is the coding simplistic? Sure, but that doesn't mean every user will know how to do it. Not having a piped link is even more simplistic. Yes, the 's is a part of the word, but nowhere is it ever stated that we need to add 15 extra bytes to change the color of two, two single bytes. It's not harder to read the 's without the color, it's just as simple. And it doesn't look any better or worse either way it's done. It's not something people usually even take notice of. The cons outweigh the pros, making this a bad idea. I think that everything about it is unnecessary.

So why do so many wikis do this anyway? 