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It is common for an editor to use the word "here" on a talk page, as if it obviously did not mean
but rather
i.e.,
The first contributor to this essay -- a self-confessed perfectionist, who is aware that this essay probably only represents a minority viewpoint -- has made a practice of writing, instead, either "on the accompanying article page" (or -- when willing to stop and think about whether only one article is under discussion) "in the article". That contributor also sees piping the word "here", on talk pages, to this essay as an alternative (and perhaps less distracting) practice, that still lessens the opportunity for confusion that is at least theoretically invited by the ambiguous use of "here", which use seems to be reflexive for many of our colleagues.
That is, instead of writing on a talk page
one can write
(in which the bolding reflects the fact that, on this essay page, that link is a self-link, not a live link to this essay).