Wikisource:WikiProject DNB/Wikification

This is a project page to address the issue “what hyperlinks should be added to DNB articles, and how?” Most added links must be either piped or created by templates, to preserve the original text. They must also conform to general site policies, even if those are not of particularly clear application. Since pages are created by transclusion, the wikification happens in the Page: namespace.

Hierarchy of preferences
There is a hierarchy of preferences that can usefully be made explicit:


 * 1) Prefer links to other DNB articles;
 * 2) Then prefer links to other enWS articles, using a disambiguation page to offer the reader the full choice where appropriate;
 * 3) Then prefer links to enWP articles;
 * 4) Then prefer links to any WMF sister project;
 * 5) Last choice is a general Web link.

Classification
It seems clearer to divide added links into two classes:


 * (a) links implied by the DNB article’s structure, the addition of these being agreed on by the project, running to other DNB articles (call these project links); and
 * (b) links that in are some sense optional, and should be subject to Wikisource’s somewhat diffuse general policy of hyperlinking where advantageous (call these optional links).