Thread:RRabbit42/@comment-31352869-20150511183144/@comment-961279-20150519061544

Alright, I think I've got it. What I see is that there isn't a manual of style on that wiki, so what Station7 said is correct. Identifying an episode/movie/book could be done either way. (I'll just say "episode" from now on to cover all of those.) However, I don't know of any rule that says a REF tag can only be used for external websites. It's designed so it can be used for both internal and external links.

The way you're marking an episode lets the reader know immediately which one is being talked about. The way CC-1990 is doing it seems to be a little more "in-universe" and lets the reader decide if they want to click on it to see what the episode is. The advantage to doing it his way is that you can re-use the same REF tag pretty easily. The disadvantage is that if you do click on it, you jump down to the bottom of the page and you lose where you were.

Maybe the answer is to look into some kind of pop-up method where you move the mouse over an indicator and it pops up with the relevant episode but lets you stay in place where you're currently reading. The My Little Pony Wiki came up with a custom script that pops up a picture of a character when you move the mouse on their name. Wikipedia has it so that if the References section is visible on your screen, when you move the mouse over a reference number, it draws a box around that item in the Ref list. Otherwise, it pops up a small box with the reference info in it.

Or, since pop-ups will mean some kind of CSS or JS code, maybe you can spearhead getting a manual of style for that wiki?