User talk:Dominic3203

Citation bot

Why did you run the citation bot through all of the draft pages in my userspace? I do find that a little odd to do that without asking me. The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 19:07, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 15:50, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion is still open, please would you be able to come to ANI and discuss why you did this? The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 09:16, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dominic3203: There are two choices: stop editing pages in other editor's userspace, or join the ANI discussion and justify your plans. Johnuniq (talk) 09:21, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Advice

Hello, Dominic3203,

I see you have returned to editing but you haven't come by ANI to address concerns about your editing. Please do so the next time you log on to the project or you risk losing your editing privileges. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:04, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for November 9

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Progress trap, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Instrument.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 19:56, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you have not corrected the mistake you were told about in the message above, despite having made several other edits since it was posted here. It is best to avoid making that mistake, by checking that any link you are thinking of posting links to an appropriate target before deciding to add it; if, however you do add a disambiguation link to an article and you are told you have done so, please go back and correct it.

I also noticed that in the same edit you did a number of examples of what is known as "overlinking". Wikilinks can be very helpful, but it is a mistake 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 the subject 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 Progress trap is likely to need to consult the article Instrument in order to understand the content of Progress trap, so linking to Instrument is not likely to be helpful.

On this occasion I have reverted your edit, but it will help if you can bear these points in mind. JBW (talk) 11:15, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since posting the message above, I have seen that you have previously received a number of disambiguation link notifications, which you have deleted. Please don't ignore disambiguation link notifications. JBW (talk) 11:19, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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