Period at the end of a link or not?

[John Cook]

I do what you do, Rick, with the exception that I switch out the period at
the end of the sentence for a colon.

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

-- 
John Cook
Technical Writer / Help Author
john dot cook at gmail dot com



On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Rick Stone <rstone75 at kc.rr.com> wrote:

> 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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