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Again, welcome! EphemeralPerpetuals (they/them)^talk 13:31, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Adding link 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 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 Malcolm Scott (entertainer) is likely to need to consult the article England in order to understand what "England" means, nor does the article England contain any information about Malcolm Scott, so linking the one to the other is not likely to be helpful. JBW (talk) 14:04, 14 January 2024 (UTC)