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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | In his "Instructions for FOLDOC Guest Editors", the FOLDOC
editor, Denis Howe, says:
You should mark up (as a cross reference) any term which one
might reasonably expect to find, whether or not a definition
currently exists. This allows me to tell which links people
are trying to follow and add definitions as required.
The on-line description of the FOLDOC includes the following:
Note that not all cross-references actually lead anywhere yet, but if
you find one that leads to something inappropriate, please let me
know.
Therefore a cross-reference to a non-existent definition is not
an error, but is part of the editor's TODO list. A bug report
regarding such a hanging cross-reference doesn't warrant a severity
greater than wishlist.
Denis has a huge backlog of requested definitions - it is usually
at least a year before contributed definitions are inserted into the
FOLDOC, and much longer for requested definitions. Therefore, when an
additional definition is requested, I usually prepare (preferably with
the help of the submitter), and submit proposed definitions for
wishlist items. Usually, I add the proposed definition to Debian
releases pending their inclusion upstream.
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