While I don't necessarily agree with all of these points,
> link only 2 of the 4, and then not to the section in this article?
This one is particularly prevalent on websites and it's quite annoying. When the site has any topic explainer articles, the terms that refer to those topics are always linked to those other articles, presumably to increase ad impressions and keep users on their site- but when there are legitimate article-specific links (which are almost always what I want), I have no way to locate those links (for instance when finding an original source).
Back in the day websites would use a different link style for this sort of "internal plug" style links, which was helpful. I guess it died out because users didn't want to click them. So the solution is, make it hard to tell which ones are internal plugs!
> link only 2 of the 4, and then not to the section in this article?
This one is particularly prevalent on websites and it's quite annoying. When the site has any topic explainer articles, the terms that refer to those topics are always linked to those other articles, presumably to increase ad impressions and keep users on their site- but when there are legitimate article-specific links (which are almost always what I want), I have no way to locate those links (for instance when finding an original source).
Back in the day websites would use a different link style for this sort of "internal plug" style links, which was helpful. I guess it died out because users didn't want to click them. So the solution is, make it hard to tell which ones are internal plugs!