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Per consensus at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 102#Prohibited (sic) links in January 2013:
When citing a reference, with a URL, the URL should link to the document (web page) cited, not just the home page (or some other high level page) on the site which hosts that document.
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Per consensus at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 102#Prohibited (sic) links in January 2013:
When citing a reference, with a URL, the URL should link to the document (web page) cited, not just the home page (or some other high level page) on the site which hosts that document.