Links in the Body of the Page
The body of a Wikipedia page is where the content goes. Itâs a blank page Wikipedia provides for editors to fill in. On regular Wikipedia pages, category links always appear at the very bottom of a pageâs body. All other types of links, including the table of contents, can show up wherever the editor wants to put them.
However, as discussed in Chapter 13, there are standards for article pages: which sections go where, and how sections should be named, and where the table of contents goes. Still, these are human-monitored standards, not software-determined formats, so if you see something unusual, take a lookâit may be something that needs fixing.
There are two kinds of pages where human editors canât add or edit links:
Special pages. Special pages are automatically generated one-time reports. Since you canât edit these pages, you canât add links to them.
Category pages. The body of a Category page is essentially a bunch of links that the software has kept track of.
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