Re: Period at the end of a link or not?

[Rick Stone <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com>]

Hi Sylvia

For what it's worth, I normally try and complete the sentence before the 
link, as in something like this.

For more information, please consult the following link.
http://www.somesite.com/somefolder/somepage.htm

Cheers... Rick :)


SB wrote:
> We are writing a "Getting Started Guide". There are a couple of sentences
> with long links: i.e., to download XYZ, you can do it from here (of couse we
> don't write here because it is a pdf and because we want the user to see the
> path even if it is long).
>
> My colleague thinks it should have a period at the end of the link to make
> it a sentence and to be grammatically correct. Is this truly a grammatical
> sentence? Here is an example. Period or no period?
>
> *please go to our on line password request link **
> http://www.xxxxxx.com/SupportAndServices/Request_Login*<http://www.xxxxxx.com/SupportAndServices/Request_Login>
> * For your protection and ours, we cannot provide this information via
> email.*
>
> Sometimes people copy and paste instead of clickng the link. So yes, it is
> true, it is a PDF and not everybody has a way to copy it but I tend to think
> that a period at the end of a path is an extra invitation to error.
>
> What is your opinion regarding the issue.
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