3,560 links became 2,191, and the distribution is the point: Seizures
was linked 119 times and is now 48, across the 50 articles that mention
it — about one per view, which is what a first mention means.
1. First mention per view, not per section. Short, Long and Clinical
are read separately so each earns one; nine sections did not earn
nine. Metabolic Acidosis: 39 links to 19.
2. Lists are jump lists, prose is not. A differential or causes list
keeps a link on every distinct condition — that is the one place a
reader wants ten in a row.
3. The 23 titles mentioned in more than 5% of articles link from lists
only. "Seizures may occur" is not a topic anyone breaks off reading
to visit; it is the vocabulary of paediatrics.
4. A finished marker is now stashed, so a shorter title cannot re-cut
one already made.
6. A link whose label is not the target's title was written by hand
and is never touched, which is what makes --apply re-runnable: it
strips only its own work and reapplies the rule.
Correcting myself: I first measured hub terms on text that was already
linked, where the word pattern cannot see a mention wrapped in a marker.
That undercounted by four times and made the corpus look far less
repetitive than it is. The threshold is measured on clean prose.
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