flicker - 2:12 am on Oct 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

I should point out that, as an editor, I automatically consider a website for deeplinking whenever I review it. That doesn't mean the answer is "yes" very often (as Hutcheson just explained very thoroughly, commercial sites almost never qualify, and it's even rare for a truly informational website to cover multiple topics in reasonable depth.) But it's certainly one of the things I look for as I review. When I come across a genuinely content-rich site -- a niche encyclopedia with quality articles on several topics, for example, or a museum with quality photo exhibits on several different subjects, or an academic resource with original in-depth research on multiple questions -- I'm usually quite enthusiastic about going around and listing all those informational nuggets in their appropriate places.

Deeplinking just isn't one of the editing tasks we have a mechanism to accept outside suggestions on. As I'm sure you can imagine, such a mechanism would be *completely* overrun with spam, as every webmaster out there dutifully entered the URL of every single article, product, or forum post on his or her site. :-)