Documentation/README: formalize guidelines for external link syntax

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Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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More information can be found here:
https://sublime-and-sphinx-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/references.html.
For external links, we use this syntax:
`link text <link URL>`__
instead of:
`link text <link URL>`_
Both syntaxes work, but the latter also creates a "link text" reference
target which could conflict with other references with the same name.
So, only use this variant when you wish to make multiple references
to this link, reusing only the target name.
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27420317/restructured-text-rst-http-links-underscore-vs-use
Anchor (<#link>) links are forbidden as they are not checked by Sphinx during
the build and may be broken without knowing about it.