User talk:Ramendoctor

Wiki linking

I hardly see any improvement in [1]. Please, either learn WP:Manual of Style/Linking thoroughly, or switch your activity to content creation from present sprinkling of the blue paint into articles edited by tens of competent editors for many years. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 10:51, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

I do not wish to appear to be incredibly knowledgeable of this matter, because, quite frankly, I am not. The linking to other pages that I did was not intended to deface or ruin the work of those competent editors, and I certainly admire what they did. Wikipedia, however, is intended to be a source of information, and a handy one at that. Linking to other articles allows the reader to follow those links and thus explore Wikipedia, connecting one concept to another, and more fully accessing the enormous bank of information that is this online encyclopedia. I do not feel that my linking in any way hurt the article, and I believe that, in due time, many curious readers will click those links and read about more interesting topics.

I do, however, concede that linking to "germany" may be a tad bit irrelevant in an article about a chemical element; if you wish to delete that link, then please do. But I added in a few other links, links that I believe are more pertinent and wish you to keep. In the future, I will limit my linking to more germane topics. But, I ask you, what harm did I do?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramendoctor (talk • contribs) 13:39, 23 July 2013‎

WP:OVERLINK is the guideline on what not to link - if an article has a lot of links scattered through its text, the genuinely useful ones will be less apparent to the reader. Like you say, everyday and tangential concepts like "Germany" shouldn't be linked because the reader is unlikely to want to look them up mid-article. The other thing to bear in mind is repeating links; an article should rarely need to link a term that's already been linked earlier in the article. --McGeddon (talk) 12:50, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

I completely agree. I tried to be mindful of duplicate links, but if I slipped in some, I am very sorry. I usually find that, when I read something toward the bottom of the Wikipedia page, there are many fewer links because all the links are closer to the top. Sometimes (and I just found out this is not allowed, sorry) I add links to words or phrases that have been linked before, but are too far down in the article, away from the previous link. Once again, I'm sorry for my over linking. I do admit the geographical locations were a bit much. Thanks for the tip.