Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4569446-20151129125248/@comment-2248043-20151129192714

Mmm.... It's one of those things that one just knows after a while. Usually, there should be a reference whenever possible but links are helpful when they're done right too. For example, when saying a video title in a paragraph the video should be linked, not referenced. Like, "I Want My Senpai Back" or whatever. However, videos can be overlinked just like a regular link. Then, it would be like,

"She had two long orange pigtails, as seen in 'I Want My Senpai Back".

However, videos can also be used as a reference. Such as, on the Poisoning page. There were sentences that were set up for a reference, but lacked any. Case in point, "YandereDev has stated that in the final version of the game, other students will notice the person loudly choking to death instead of just staying still, ignoring them." No reference to a tweet. Instead, I could only find a video for this, but I had it as a reference because the sentence was set up as a reference. I don't want to change it to a link because I know that there's another referenced video, the exact same one, on the page but at a different time. I'd rather not link to a whole video. Instead, I suggest referencing to a video at a certain time so that people won't have to go through the whole video just to see something. It's much more exact and outsiders that are new to overlinking won't complain about how one video is linked but not the other. Videos are still currently okay to be linked though, but referencing them is better.

References are used for most things. Instead of saying something like, "The Dev said that the panties might be balanced some way in the future, as stated here," It could instead be, "The Dev said that the panties might be balanced some way in the future. "

Never link to a Twitter conversation, which are the wikia's main source of ultimate power. It has never been done before and it shall never be done ever.

Basically, always try to avoid regular linking as much as possible, in favor of references. Certain situations require linking, but most will use referencing. It just really depends on how the sentence is worded. However, if the sentence can be changed and fits better as a reference, then make it a reference.