User talk:Gordieee

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MOS:OVERLINK

Thank you for your recent edits, but please read and understand the linked part of Wikipedia's manual of style. We generally don't link commonly known terms, so I've reverted some of your recent changes. More details are provided on the link supplied. Harrias ^{(he/him) • talk} 17:27, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see that, despite the message above from Harrias, you have to post unsuitable wkilinks into articles. 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 a link to a page which either explains words or expressions in the article or provides background information which is necessary in order to understand content of that article. Linking to articles in other situations is not just unnecessary, it is actually 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 are likely to find useful. Thus, for example, nobody reading the article Technique for human error-rate prediction is likely to need to consult the article Error in order to understand what "error" means, nor does the article Error contain any information about Technique for human error-rate prediction, so linking the one to the other is not likely to be helpful. JBW (talk) 21:03, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]