Eliminating redundant redundancies

[ffutures]

Police Code has the entry "Cock and Dog Fighting" which has several "see" references including "see Ferocious Dogs" - which is an entry that reads, in its entirety, "Ferocious Dogs - See Dogs"

I'm converting these references into hypertext links. Should I make the link from "Cock and Dog Fighting" lead to "Ferocious Dogs" or go straight to "Dogs?"

later leaving it - as others have pointed it out, it's of historical interest.

I've updated the online files, now have clickable links on all (I hope) entries A to C and quite a lot of the later ones.

Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

I think you should follow the pattern of the original. If you link directly to "Dogs", people are going to go back to look at "Ferocious Dogs" anyway.

[ggreig]

Leave it, I think. It means there's an index entry under "F" if people go looking specifically for "Ferocious Dogs", which is probably why it exists in the first place. If nothing else, it tells you that "Ferocious Dog" must have been a common description at the time.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Another vote to keep it. I wonder when the term 'Ferocious Dogs' was replaced by 'Dangerous Dogs'? The former term is much more appropriate. Any dog can be 'dangerous' merely by running in front of a car.

*Wanders off and trips over the terrier. Again.*