Questions tagged [hyperlinks]
For questions on usage of links at MathOverflow (both links to various parts of this site and to other sites).
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On the screen rendering of the ${\rm \LaTeX}$ referencing commands
This questions echoes this comment by Alexandre Eremenko. In the texts of Q&As, \eqref links to references in ${\rm \LaTeX}$ render the link to the reference as ...
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If an MO post includes links to images not hosted on i.sstatic.net, should they be re-posted there?
The (very early!) post Most interesting mathematics mistake? recently came back to the front page, and I noticed that the excellent answer by @DanielMoskovich includes images sourced from Elwes's blog ...
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goo.gl is closing down
goo.gl, a URL shortener service from Google, is shutting down, and in one year it will no longer work: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/07/18/216211/google-url-...
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All these invalid weblinks
I found so many web links became invalid on the questions and even more on the comments. Please be aware of this issue. In the future, this site needs to either repair the invalid links or advise ...
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Question titles do not auto-expand if URL contains non-ASCII characters?
Consider two versions of What is the modulus of continuity of this function that is continuous, increasing and bounded but nowhere locally Hölder?. Notice that, in the first version, the linked ...
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Will the closure of Gfycat affect MO?
Gfycat is a hosting service for (animated) GIF files, which will close on September 1st, 2023. Since some MO users might have included GIF files hosted on Gfycat in their posts, does the service's ...
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What is the status of the imgur images on MathOverflow?
Many posts on MO contain a link to imgur.com. Such links can be created outside the Stack Exchange network - if somebody simply creates a picture on imgur. But some of them might have been uploaded ...
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Facebook and Twitter links disappear ungracefully
I am using Safari 16.1 on macOS 12.6. The invitation to "Share a link to this question" appears for me like this:
I assume that the Twitter and Facebook links are not showing because of ...
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Weird site URLs
If I go to MathOverflow from another SE site by clicking on the link in "Your Communities" under the right-most menu on the top-bar, I do not end up with the usual ...
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Should we allow link-only answers that point to stable, well known and respectable sites?
I have just been presented with an answer in the VLQ queue that consisted essentially in a link to a preprint on arXiv. The user having posted it is a high reputation user, so he definitely knows the ...
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Hyperlink in a comment?
How do I add a link to an external published article in a comment? I don't see the edit frame with the link button. What is the syntax I can use? (I did search Meta but did not see ...!)
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Citing papers in questions/answers
Is there an established policy for how to cite a paper you link to in a question/answer? If not, what does etiquette dictate appropriate for citations?
I used to be careful to include full citations ...
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Can (and should) Project Euclid links be replaced in bulk?
In February 2021, Project Euclid made some changes on their website: Project Euclid Platform Migration FAQs.
It is probably a consequence of this that the links starting with ...
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Link not being processed
At What kind of topological invariants can you get from just Hopf algebras?, link [4] is not being processed:
However, it is there in the source:
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Updated: Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?
This question from March 2020 points out that many questions/answers link to papers at the http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ frontend instead of at the arXiv itself, but that the frontend had been down a ...