G2G: How should I explicitly mark info in the Bio that has further info in the Research Notes section?

Question

I have a few profiles that in the Bio section there are dates and/or locations where I have provided more detailed explanation of that info in the Research Notes section.

I was wondering; Is there an official way to mark info in the Bio section that has further research info in the Research Notes section?

In one of these profiles, I created an inline reference that linked to sources section that just had a message that said "see Research Notes". That seemed convoluted to me and not very obvious at a glance. Only someone interested in seeing the source reference (that in this case didn't exist) would click on it. 

Is there a method that others have found effective to draw people's attention to discussion in the Research Notes section surrounding a particular "fact" in the Bio section? This seems like it would be particularly helpful in longer Bios.

I was thinking that maybe there was a Template similar to the "citation needed" template (which links to Help:Sources) but that doesn't seem to exist. I guess I could fake the appearance of one by adding ^{[see Research Notes]}. This is visually explicit, but has no linking functionality.

I do see that there are Research Note Boxes that put an alert style box at the top of the profile, but that doesn't really target a specific piece of information, nor does it direct people to the Research Notes section for further discussion.

Ideally, I would love a method that is explicit that a research note exists for a specific piece of information and also creates a clickable link to that note in the Research Notes section. I'm sure there is a way to do this with advance markup techniques, but I don't want to stray from the official Styles Guide.

Answer 1

There is no "official" way. But there is a much better method that many people use - links to page anchors.

In markup, you use [[#Research Notes|Research Notes]]. The hash (#) is for linking to an anchor on the same page, and the words are to the anchor. Anchors are automatically created by headings.

So you could say something such as "See the [[#Research Notes|Research Notes]] for more details."

If you have more headings under research notes, such as this:

== Research Notes ==
=== Note 1 ===

You can also link to Note 1 with [[#Note 1|your wording here]].

Comments

This is exactly what I was looking for.

This is the format I settled on;

^{[[#Note Subheading|[‘’see Research Note’’]]]}

Then the inline reference looks like the "citation needed" notation, the italics help distinguish it from the text a little better, and it links to the specific Subheading within the Research Notes section.

Thank you!