The practical upshot is that you don't have to worry about numerical sequencing or having to rearrange things if edits are made at a later date. Definitely useful for tag wiki stuff, or any other giant blob of hyperlinks (i.e. RFCs) that you're throwing together.

This started as a PSA on using RFC numbers/names in hyperlinks, but I'm adjusting the format so that 1) it can have an accepted answer, and 2) people can share their own silly citation tricks.

The practical upshot is that you don't have to worry about numerical sequencing or having to rearrange things if edits are made at a later date. Definitely useful for tag wiki stuff, or any other giant blob of hyperlinks (i.e. RFCs) that you're throwing together.

This started as a PSA on using RFC numbers/names in hyperlinks, but I'm adjusting the format so that 1) I can accept my own answer, and 2) people can share their own silly citation tricks.

This is pretty obvious when you think about it, but still neat.

Example:

This is a link to [RFC 1796][1796].

So is [this][rfc1796].

[1796]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1796    
[rfc1796]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1796    

Result:

This is a link to RFC 1796.

So is this.

The practical upshot is that you don't have to worry about numerical sequencing or having to rearrange things if edits are made at a later date. Definitely useful for tag wiki stuff, or any other giant blob of RFC hyperlinks that you're throwing together.

The practical upshot is that you don't have to worry about numerical sequencing or having to rearrange things if edits are made at a later date. Definitely useful for tag wiki stuff, or any other giant blob of hyperlinks (i.e. RFCs) that you're throwing together.

This started as a PSA on using RFC numbers/names in hyperlinks, but I'm adjusting the format so that 1) it can have an accepted answer, and 2) people can share their own silly citation tricks.