User talk:CJKVR

Adding links to articles

I see that many of your edits have added links from one article to another, known as "wikilinks". Most of the wikilinks you have added are likely to be helpful, but in a few cases you seem to be making the mistake of adding many wikilinks rather indiscriminately, sometimes when they are not likely to be helpful. Generally speaking, a wikilink should be added only if it provides information which is likely to help readers of the article in which the link is placed to understand content of that article, or provide further information closely connected to content of that article. That normally means either a link to an article which explains words or expressions in the article containing the link, or a link to an article which provides background information which is necessary in order to understand content of the article containing the link. Linking to articles in other situations is not just unnecessary, it can actually be harmful, because research has established that the more irrelevant, or only slightly relevant, links there are in a page, the less likely readers are to find the ones which they might find useful. <nowiki>Thus, for example, nobody reading the article μ operator is likely to need to consult the article Ancient Greeks in order to understand what "Greek" means, nor does the article Ancient Greeks contain any information about the μ-operator, so linking the one to the other is not likely to be helpful. To give one more example, nothing in the article nationality is likely to help anyone to understand any content of Method of Four Russians. JBW (talk) 11:01, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out! I'll stick to this standard you provided here in the future! CJKVR (talk) 11:10, 5 December 2024 (UTC)