It's not a link tag. They're not just links. It's an anchor tag. That is the semantic purpose. The URI reference and a title is definitely semantic. Together th

It's not a link tag. They're not just links. It's an anchor tag. That is the semantic purpose. The URI reference and a title is definitely semantic. Together the identification of a resource. It's not just metadata or presentation. ---------- - Person - Thumbnail - Name - URI - Posts by person (URI) ---------- - Post - Title - URI - Author (URI) ---------- You might say the entire person block could have a reference to it's URI. But more important is the posts by person anchor, and the related author anchor. They are the anchor points from which you leave each document. Sure, you could add that functionality to other blocks, but they would already have other semantic meaning. Like a list item with a reference is still just a list item. This tag is semantically its own. One could make the same argument about any semantic tag for inline content. Like `em` or `strong`. You could of course indicate emphasis of an entire list item using a CSS class, but it's still just a list item. And the ability to use emphasis on other tags does not negate the need for an `em` tag for just that purpose.