White Wolf:Describe external links

&laquo;- White Wolf: Policies and Guidelines

Readers don't always have the time to conduct their own in-depth research on a specific subject. Websites can often take a long time to load, and even longer to evaluate their content. Providing a plain link like this...


 * Ex Libris Nocturnis

... is often not useful, because the reader has no idea just what the linked website is about. Who maintains it? What's its focus? How good is it?

Instead, provide a short description about the link to assist the reader in evaluating it, like this:


 * Ex Libris Nocturnis - Christopher Lee Simmons's website is devoted to the Storyteller/Storytelling System games. Includes reviews and fan-written material.

Additionally, if the external link is to a specific page that requires special software to interpret (for example, a PDF document), it's useful to add a note to that effect.