User talk:ArvinTopper
My husband is teaching me how to do this lol. Forgot the tildes - I'm still a beginner. ArvinTopper (talk) 22:20, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
welcome
[edit]Welcome!
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- One specific point, though. There is a guideline for when to create links (Wikipedia:Linking), which includes a section on overlinking. While the question of exactly what to link is not always clear-cut, there is a fairly strong consensus against, for example, linking dates (in most contexts). Kingdon (talk) 04:03, 6 January 2010 (UTC)