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@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ My first reading (and second and third) of this was that backlinks would be disa
> improve the documentation for this. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
-I notice that there is quite a bit of redundancy when both tags and backlinks are used extensively. On most pages, the set of links features in both categories is almost identical because a tag's index page is shown both as a tag link and as a backlink. Is there a way to improve that situation somehow? I realise that backlinks aren't generated when the tag index page refers to its contents by \[\[!map ...]], etc., but sometimes an auto-generated index is insufficient.
+I notice that there is quite a bit of redundancy when both tags and
+backlinks are used extensively. On most pages, the set of links features in
+both categories is almost identical because a tag's index page is shown
+both as a tag link and as a backlink. Is there a way to improve that
+situation somehow? I realise that backlinks aren't generated when the tag
+index page refers to its contents by \[\[!map ...]], etc., but sometimes an
+auto-generated index is insufficient.
--Peter
+
+> Um, if you're manually linking from the tag's page to each page so
+> tagged, I think you have larger problems than tags and backlinks being
+> the same. Like keeping that list of links up to date as tags are added
+> and changed. --[[Joey]]