<h1 align="center">Notes sur les URL </h1>
<ul class="toc">
  <li><a href="#use">What sorts of information are they used to convey?</a></li>
  <li><a href="#add">How are they added, removed, and edited?</a></li>
  <li><a href="#colours">What do the different colours signify?</a></li>
  <li><a href="#cascade">How do URL notes cascade?</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>URL notes are designed to communicate important information about URLs. </p>
  <p><b><a name="use"></a>What sorts of information are they used to convey?</b></p>
  <p> They can be used to suggest caution when reviewing sites that are known 
    to be aggressively submitted, to inform editors that the URL they are reviewing 
    is mirrored under a different address, to indicate that the URL in question 
    is a particularly good resource to deeplink, or to explain how to fix erroneous 
    deeplinks by describing their format. </p>
  <p><b><a name="add"></a>How are they added, removed, and edited?</b></p>
  <p> The answer depends on the permissions that you have. Staff, metas, kmetas, 
    editalls and catmods can add, edit, and remove URL notes themselves via an 
    'add note' that appears when they edit a URL. Category editors can request 
    that a note be added, edited, or removed by forwarding the corresponding URL 
    to Test/See_Editors_Notes . </p>
  <p><b><a name="colours"></a>What do the different colours signify?</b></p>
<ul>
  <li> 
    <div class="maincontent"> Red - The URL is unsuitable for listing -- be it 
      a mirror, a doorway, or a harbour for illegal content. </div>
  </li>
  <li> 
    <div class="maincontent"> Yellow - URL alert -- such notes do not necessarily 
      convey bad information like their red cousins; their content should simply 
      be taken into account when the corresponding URLs are dealt with. </div>
  </li>
  <li> 
    <div class="maincontent">Green - The URL is a particularly good resource -- 
      generally used for sites that are thought worthy of deeplinking. </div>
  </li>
</ul>
<div class="maincontent"> 
  <p><b><a name="diff"></a>What's the difference between URL notes and editor 
    notes?</b></p>
  <p> 1 - Visibility. URL notes appear at the top of the screen, atop a bright 
    background, whenever a corresponding URL is edited; whereas editor notes appear 
    in a small font at the bottom of edit screens and as a result are possible 
    to 'gloss over' when editing. </p>
  <p>2 - Prevalence. Editor notes attach themselves to individual URLs; whereas 
    URL notes cascade downwards from the URL they were added to. For example, 
    if an editor note (also known simply as a 'note') was added to http://example.net/ 
    it would be visible only when that URL was edited. By contrast, if a URL note 
    was added to the same URL it would be visible when editors edited the root 
    URL <i>or</i> any deeplinks of the same. For more information on prevalence 
    see the next answer. </p>
  <p><b><a name="cascade"></a>How do URL notes cascade?</b></p>
  <p> If you imagine <code>http://example.com/</code> as a root URL, then <code>http://example.com/directory/</code> 
    and <code>http://example.com/page.html</code> are two of its sub-nodes. That 
    is to say, the root URL is always the highest node, and its sub-pages and 
    sub-directories are lower nodes. Using this principle, URL notes cascade down 
    from the point at which they were added -- they appear on all sub-pages, sub-directories, 
    and sub-sub-pages / directories. For example, if a URL note has been explicitly 
    added to <code>http://example.com/</code> , the note would also appear on:</p>
</div>
<ul>
  <li> 
     <code> http://example.com/search.cgi </code>
  </li>
  <li> 
    <code>http://example.com/about.php</code>
  </li>
  <li> 
    <code>http://example.com/directory/ </code>
  </li>
  <li> 
    <code>http://example.com/directory/beware_of_the_moz/</code>
  </li>
</ul>
  <p>Similarly, if a URL note was explicitly added to <code>http://example.org/products/</code> 
    , it would also appear on: </p>
<ul>
  <li>
    <code>http://example.org/products/order.php</code>
  </li>
  <li>
    <code>http://example.org/products/mozilla.droppings/</code>
  </li>
  <li> 
    <code> http://example.org/products/food/chocalate/with_nuts/</code>
  </li>
</ul>
 however, it would not appear on: <code>http://example.org/company/</code> 
  This is because the URL note cascades downwards; not upwards.