User talk:Glidus

Adding links to articles

I see that some of your edits have added links from one article to another, known as "wikilinks". Wikilinks can be very helpful, but it is a very common mistake among new editors to add too many wikilinks to articles. 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. Thus, for example, nobody reading the article Ladle (spoon) is likely to need to consult the article Soup in order to understand what "soup" means, nor does the article Soup contain any information about ladles, so linking the one to the other is not likely to be helpful. However, thank you for replacing "A ladle is a type of cooking implement" with "A ladle is a large, deep spoon", which is a far more helpful description. JBW (talk) 17:26, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying. I think I had picked up on frivolous linking over the years by reading other articles where this is an issue. I noticed that you had already reverted a number of changes of the same manner to that article, but only put that together after I had already made my mark. Apologies and thank you for your attentive dedication to the improvement of this beautiful site. Glidus (talk) 07:56, 8 February 2024 (UTC)