User:Tony1/Most poorly wikilinked article award

Wikilinks are an essential part of Wikipedia. However, if the linking system is to work well, editors need to exercise skill and judgement in their choice and manner of linking. WP:LINK sets out the guidelines for doing this.

This page is for users to nominate astonishingly irrelevant, unfocused, redundant or poorly piped internal links that they wish to be considered for the award. Although there is an element of humour in the forum, it has its serious side: promoting the need for good linking practice among editors.

The award

This user is the proud winner of a Silliest wikilink of the month award.

As usual for Wikipedia, there is no physical award. The winner for each quarterly period is judged by Ceoil, and announced beneath each monthly table.

Nominations

Prizes will be awarded on the basis of whole articles, not individual links or groups of links. The scope is limited to (non-disambiguation) mainspace articles.

December 2012

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
man, history, book, film, poet, author	Love Letters of Great Men	Eisfbnore (会話) 21:29, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

April–June 2012

Linked item:	Article:	Comments	Nominator (signature)
dog, motorcycle, pickup truck	Seamus incident	I did a double take. So articles linked like this still exist!!!	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 01:37, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

April 2012

Linked item:	Article:	Comments	Nominator (signature)
'glasses', 'opinion', 'thank'	Abdus Salam		Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

May 2011

Linked item:	Article:	Comments	Nominator (signature)
[1]: [[Pebbles]] x11	Perri "Pebbles" Reid		BelovedFreak 21:08, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

March 2011

Linked item:	Article:	Comments	Nominator (signature)
excerpt: "The native [[forest]] is filled with paths for walking. The Botanic [[Museum]] attracts researchers from all over the [[world]]. There is a space for exhibitions, [[library]] and a [[theatre]]."	Curitiba		Ohconfucius ¡digame! 07:56, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

February 2011

Linked item:	Article:	Comments	Nominator (signature)
Bye, , (yes, an actual comma), a, silent	Abdulhussain Abdulredha		BelovedFreak 14:44, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
World, second word in lead	World Trade Organization		Moni3 13:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Snow, ice, rain, thunderstorm, "windiest" (to "wind")	Climate of Minnesota	Featured article	Mkativerata (talk) 11:04, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

January 2011

Linked item:	Article:	Comments	Nominator (signature)
Local climate	Passive solar building design	Insert your comments	Kayau HAPI B-DAY WP 14:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
ferry, cinema, gym, riot, trade, country	Amsterdam		Tony (talk) 08:37, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

December 2010

Prizes will be awarded on the basis of whole articles, not individual links or groups of links.

Up to six of the worst unlinked items	Article name	Comments	Nominator (signature)
marriage, trumpet, film, song, dance...	Ray Anthony	"Cold December comes and then.. Bloody January again!" Flanders and Swann	Rich Farmbrough 17:35, 2 December 2010 (UTC).
1972, photographer, magic, plot, the	Hot Dogs for Gauguin	Easter egg - year in film, over-linked "photographer", "plot" overlinked to a dab page, "magic" overlinked to a dab page with 71 meanings, none of them the one that is meant... and "the" - an overlink to a redirect, which is not appropriate (if it should link to anything, which it shouldn't, it should pipe to unique). And all in two lines!	Rich Farmbrough 19:39, 2 December 2010 (UTC).
published, 1609	Sonnet 116		Ucucha 20:58, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
television series, tortured, nanny, nightmare, pregnant, revenge	Adam Carter	And I didn't even mention "Car bomb" and "protagonist"....	Trebor (talk) 04:33, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

November 2010

Prizes will be awarded on the basis of whole articles, not individual links or groups of links.

Up to six of the worst unlinked items	Article name	Comments	Nominator (signature)
The letter "s" (srsly), zero, randompopular, author	Infinite monkey theorem	This is an FA no less. Tbh I think I have this month's comp. wrapped up, no one's topping wikilinking the the letter s imho.	AaronY (talk) 22:40, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
book, name, society, newspaper, magazine	Books and publishing in Pakistan	A shocker; dictionary terms all over the place; repeats	Tony (talk) 08:31, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
alcoholic beverage, sunglasses, vomiting, plea	Ronnie Lee Gardner	Suggested during FA review. Would it set a precedent to receive both honors at the same time?	KimChee (talk) 02:00, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
book, name, society, newspaper, magazine	Books and publishing in Pakistan	A shocker; dictionary terms all over the place; repeats	Tony (talk) 08:31, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
The [[drama]] [[Education|program]] [[presents]] several [[theatrical|productions]] each [[year]], with [[auditions]] open to all [[students]].	Littleton High School (Colorado)	"Extreme"	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 07:43, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

October 2010

From October onwards, prizes will be awarded on the basis of whole articles, not individual links or groups of links.

Up to six of the worst unlinked items	Article name	Comments	Nominator (signature)
'sea', 'of', 'port', 'name', 'people'	Ho Chi Minh City		Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:51, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
'week', 'hour', 'party', 'ladder'	Iowa State University Cyclone Marching Band		Ohconfucius ¡digame! 04:34, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
palace aisle pottery hospital tram	Timeline of Edinburgh history	Conservative unlinking; a few bad pipes; some items unlinked but might have gone to specific historical targets (after researching it).	Tony (talk) 14:50, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
peninsula, emigration, democracy, refugees, Europe	History of Portugal (1974–1986)	Dictionary terms, commonly known countries (especially in this context), and some likely misleading links, e.g., to "communist", which had a specific meaning to the rebels here.	Tony (talk) 07:15, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
'Execution (legal), gas, abortion, meeting, heckle	Nicolae Ceauşescu	among the country names, repeated links and everyday words, '[[Execution (legal)|execution]]' is the worst one - it is also an incorrect pipe	Ohconfucius ¡digame!09:08, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
'[[graduation]] [[ceremonies]]', 'Sign (display device)', 'parking lot', 'swimming pool' and 'stationery'	Chattahoochee Technical College	many dicdef words including phrases like 'marketing management' and 'graduation ceremony' where individual words were linked separately	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:07, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
'Brazilian President [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] signed a new [[law]] on [[Domestic]] and [[Family]] [[Violence]] against [[Women]] on 7 August 2006 in [[Brasília]]. '	Human rights in Brazil	[[[Women]] have the [[Equality|same legal rights]] as [[men]]. A cabinet-level office, the [[Secretariat]] for [[Women]]'s [[Policy]], oversees a special entity charged with ensuring the legal rights of women. Although the [[law]] [[prohibit]]s [[discrimination]] based on [[gender]] in [[employment]] and [[wage]]s, there were significant wage disparities between men and women.]	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:41, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
wife chair dog coins water number	Session 9	The phrase "[[illuminated]] [[restraint]] [[chair]]" got my attention; then I saw the linking of "[[wife]]"; then a "[[pot]] of [[boiling]] [[water]]". The word ''sessions'' was piped to [[interviews]]. The clincher was the appearance of the [[number]] 44.	Xanthoxyl < 04:54, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

September 2010

This is the last month in which the criterion is individual wikilinks.

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
wall	Allen Stanford	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:54, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
purple, nipple	List of school pranks	Rich Farmbrough, 21:35, 7 September 2010 (UTC).
game, gossip (twice), educational	Chinese whispers	Tony (talk) 03:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
important literary novel author	Josaphat-Robert Large	Tony (talk) 09:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Everyday life, art, history, education (and many others)	Multicultural improvisation	Rich Farmbrough, 01:59, 15 September 2010 (UTC).
white (but curiously not black), water (twice), knife, drown, heart, pony	Kelpie	Malleus Fatuorum 17:42, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
coin, meaning, derivation, government	Israeli pruta	Tony (talk) 07:41, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
world	Hans Gildemeister	Jenks24 (talk) 16:04, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
6, pasta, song, day	Zirve	Rich Farmbrough, 16:58, 22 September 2010 (UTC).

August 2010

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
female, governor	United States gubernatorial elections, 2010	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 16:07, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Sir	Chartered Institute of Linguists	Kayau Voting IS evil 05:03, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
there are plenty, but the one that sticks out most to me is 'world'	Pakistan Steel Mills	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 04:23, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
'highest'	Hamlet Isakhanli	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 08:02, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia (you need to see the context for this one)	Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia	Alzarian16 (talk) 10:28, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Winner for August 2010:

• Kayau for Sir. That the word was linked in an article on linguists is frightening to me. Well spotted. Ceoil (talk) 22:26, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

July 2010

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
warm, dry	Arequipa	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 09:23, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Mitsubishi	2010 Northumbria Police manhunt	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 09:23, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Bus stop, Taxicab	Anything and Whatever	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 10:01, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
bell (instrument)	Inuka	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 09:22, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
China (It links to China - NOT Chinese folklore!)	Jade rabbit	Kayau Voting IS evil 01:19, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Falling in love	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	Kayau Voting IS evil 02:51, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
license, livery, blue	Ayrshire Bus Owners (A1 Service)	Alzarian16 (talk) 14:11, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Love, English, novel	Alain de Botton	Tony (talk) 05:28, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
London, dead body, police, girl	Jack Says	Robofish (talk) 21:56, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Body	Tollund Man	Nev1 (talk) 22:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
ham	Led Zeppelin	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 17:19, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
virga	Metrication	A. di M. (formerly Army1987) (talk) 17:08, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Winner for July 2010:

Would be User:A. di M. Anybody with an email address gets four or five Viagra offers a day; if they dont they are not doing it correctly. Honourable mention to the link to girl. Ceoil (talk) 04:38, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

June 2010

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
shy, feelings, thinking, speaking (piped to Speech communication)	John Woo	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
death, children, English	Evil eye	Ceoil (talk) 21:09, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
gambling, golf, crocodiles, 1994, 'topless revue shows' (piped to Nudity)	Sun City, North West	Robofish (talk) 00:13, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Fire, ship, gas, explosive, tank	Caterina Costa	Brad (talk) 02:08, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
toilet, bidet	Mark Cuban	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 14:11, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
they	Chester Cathedral	Tony (talk) 13:16, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
English language - you have to see the context to see why it's silly	Bloody	Kayau Voting IS evil 12:19, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Expectations, the	Copyright infringement of software	Kayau Voting IS evil 12:24, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Chaos	Pangu	Kayau Voting IS evil 13:10, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
f (delinked by Basket of Puppies (talk · contribs))	Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim lands	Dabomb87 (talk) 19:27, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
club, victory, yards	Southend United F.C.	Alzarian16 (talk) 13:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
father, brother	Kim Wilde	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 14:52, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Red, yellow, white, gold, blue	Arriva Scotland West	Alzarian16 (talk) 18:03, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Winner for June 2010: Oh so thats what the words father, brother mean. Ohconfucius for showing us why we cant have nice things around here. Honorable mention for and grace they surpass[2]. Ceoil (talk) 23:41, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

May 2010

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
world	Opposition to the Iraq War	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 07:29, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Every year between 1892 to 1922 linked as many as 6 times.	Munsey's Magazine	SWTPC6800 (talk) 03:43, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
glitches	Doctor Who DVD releases	Alzarian16 (talk) 14:59, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
"Cigarette" and "Smoking"	Brian May	Tony (talk) 14:30, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
gorilla	Kimi Räikkönen	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:28, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Bicycle	David Cameron	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:49, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Orange	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 17:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
mutant, superpowers	Death of Diana, Princess of Wales	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 17:49, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
child	James Boswell	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:58, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
weather	Joseph Estrada	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:27, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
"machine gun" (instead of "machine gun"	Fourth Battle of Topolobampo	Colonies Chris (talk) 08:00, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
chocolate	Mohamed Atta	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 08:30, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Rickenbacker instead of Eddie Rickenbacker[3]	Raoul Lufbery	Rin Tin Tin 11:31, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
life	Funeral	Ceoil (talk) 14:58, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
lede	Tornado intensity and damage	TwilligToves (talk) 06:21, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
height, water, morning, night	Atmospheric electricity	Tony (talk) 04:59, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
sex, drinking	Greek (TV series)	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 08:18, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
music	Glenn Gould	Ceoil (talk) 12:38, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
military (piped to Armed force)	Human swimming	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:13, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Oxygen	LZR Racer	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:29, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
"True" and "false"	Psychological testing	Tony (talk) 05:31, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Winner for May 2010

Has to be World from Ohconfucius. It's were you are. Seeing internet is similarly amusing when I see it in blue. Ceoil (talk) 04:29, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

April 2010

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
'for'	Paul Bérenger	Kayau Voting IS evil 11:04, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
'to'	Tadd Dameron	Kayau Voting IS evil 09:06, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
'to'	Oncorhynchus rastrosus	Kayau Voting IS evil 09:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Principia (you have to see the immediately preceding context to understand why it's silly)	Isaac Newton	― ___A._di_M. (formerly Army1987) 11:04, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
dawn	The Last Song (film)	Tony (talk) 06:52, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
celery, fixed-wing aircraft	Chelsea F.C.	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 06:57, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
coffee, potato, frozen food	Operation Sandblast	Brad (talk) 12:30, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
book, "copyright" piped to "copywriter"	The Three Stooges	Tony (talk) 13:27, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
carrot, citizen	Alanis Morissette	Tony (talk) 08:12, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
joke	Lloyd Blankfein	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:52, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
fear	BP	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 14:08, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Winner for April 2010: Goes to Ohconfucius for joke, because of the irony, and because the edit removes a pet dislike of mine - infoboxes are bad enough but intolerable if terms like America and New York are linked within. Ug. I think Kayau's three entries are very grand, but again too strange for me to believe that the reason they were linked in the first place did not involve an element of conscious devilment by a 9 year old. Ceoil (talk) 22:32, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

March 2010

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
tree	Hatshepsut	Sssoul (talk) 05:34, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
"Microsoft"; "greenhouse gasses" Whose gas? Bill Gates's?	Microsoft	Tony (talk) 14:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
a, in, is, ...	Tarja Halonen	Certes (talk) 23:55, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
blue	Avatar (2009 film)	Tony (talk) 08:09, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
12. 13. 14 up to 29	List of shipwrecks in South Africa	Brad (talk) 14:17, 5 March 2010 (UTC) (UTC)
school, kites, sunset, moon, father, pub	Brady Kincaid	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 13:31, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
bus, tram	France	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 12:29, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
invention, camera, dormitory, apartment	Felicity	Tony (talk) 00:57, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
monographs, books, scholarly articles, papers, magazine columns, television programs, videos and lectures (yes, this is one link!)	Milton Friedman	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 08:03, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
compromise	International Atomic Time	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 09:47, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
school pimple boy	Clarissa Explains It All	Tony (talk) 00:46, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
"hate mail", "death threat"	Court Yard Hounds	Tony (talk) 10:02, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
father, diary, rape	William Golding	Tony (talk) 11:23, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
cliff	Battle of Okinawa	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 04:08, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
horseshoe	Battle of Pork Chop Hill	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 06:03, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
two, fourth, Mr., won, etc.	Captain Underpants	Robofish (talk) 14:26, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
mass, baggage	Battle of Tucumán	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 12:16, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
key, anniversary	Pope John Paul II	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 10:12, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Winner for March 2010: This was a hard one to choose; I was leaning towards Certes's 1, 3, 6, 8, 8, 9, is, a, from, the, which I may yet print in colour and frame. But I think it is surely too surreal not to be slow vandalism. The winner then is the removal from Tarja Halonen of the blue linked - tree. Also by Certes. Its overlinking like that that makes me question my fellow man.

Note to the runner ups: although Tony asked me to cover for His Grace while he deals with trouble from overseas, I have none of thoes two men's morals and am highly corruptible. Ceoil (talk) 22:01, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

February 2010

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
marriage	Marathon, Texas	Dabomb87 (talk) 02:49, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
public	Chudleigh Cavern	Malleus Fatuorum 20:08, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
sixth	Howie Gordon	BelovedFreak 15:36, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
also known as	Thomas Tew	BelovedFreak 17:17, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
[[Martin]] [[Lawrence]]	Marvin Gaye	BelovedFreak 21:59, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
[[High]] [[Street]], pffff.	Example (rapper)	Tony (talk) 09:03, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
shy, loving, sensitive, chubby, gullible, trusting, naive, cute—all in the one sentence.	Alvin and the Chipmunks	Tony (talk) 09:17, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
casual sex, mock	The Big Bang Theory	― A._di_M. (formerly Army1987) 23:45, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
lollipop	Riverside (song)	Tony (talk) 09:50, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
brain, death, eye, conversation	Albert Einstein's brain	Mm40 (talk) 04:08, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
golf	Zhao Ziyang	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:46, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
[[The]] [[School]] [[of]] [[Oriental]] [[And]] [[African]] [[Studies]], [[S]].[[F]].[[I]]. and many more.	Suneet Chopra	BelovedFreak 18:09, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
alone	Young worker safety and health	Ucucha 18:52, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
LHC	Large Hadron Collider	― A._di_M. (formerly Army1987) 16:42, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Table (furniture), event, concrete	John Quinlan (wrestler)	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC) (find courtesy of Dabomb87)
name, building, water, win, kill, room	Hodson Hall	BelovedFreak 13:53, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
three	The Whitest Kids U' Know	ceranthor 19:29, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
coconut	John F. Kennedy	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 08:17, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
ferry	Stephen Fry	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 12:52, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
the	Inlet cone	Certes (talk) 20:31, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Winner for February 2010: There were many bizarre links (although fewer than in January), and I liked many of them, but the award goes to one with a great educational value, which illustrates one of the greatest mistakes an editor can make when linking. The article in question is Marvin Gaye, and in it could be found the following gem, nominated by Belovedfreak: "Martin Lawrence". See how hard it is to tell that they are two links? After some dithering, I decided that the first link—"Martin"—was more ridiculous (the disambiguation page was longer), and so this shall be the silliest link of February 2010.

My second choice for this month was another confusing link: A. di M.'s Large Hadron Collider was a delightful false tautology with a great potential for throwing readers off track.

I do enjoy what I do, but make no mistake: entertainment value aside, if I could wish out of existence all links like the ones seen above, I'd do so. However, in the knowledge that there will be such links for a long time to come, I can only hope that they will be found, eliminated, and placed here for all to see and learn from. Waltham, The Duke of 06:04, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

January 2010

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
"[[Cambridge]] [[Natural History]] [[Society]]"	William Alexander Forbes	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:09, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
government, infrastructure, transport, communication, system, debt	Economy of Uganda	Dabomb87 (talk) 20:35, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
There are so many to choose from: 'road', 'growth', 'town' - but probably the silliest link is 'ten'	Elizabethtown, Kentucky	Colonies Chris (talk) 13:53, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
song	I Dreamed a Dream (album)	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 07:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
lung, novels, hoax, tattooed	Joe Orton	Tony (talk) 07:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Lots here: link, late, made, hard, spoke, and period...	Rubber duck	Majorly talk 00:41, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
artist	Crowded House	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:24, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
A particularly bad case. Some of the more noteworthy ones: water, food, communication/communicate, language, human, word (some of these were linked three or four times in one section)	Charles F. Hockett	Dabomb87 (talk) 19:08, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
airport, runway	Pakuba Airport	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 08:22, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
alcohol	Ashley Madison	Malleus Fatuorum 17:25, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
genitalia, hell	Jackovasaurus	RB88 (T) 00:58, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Water, office, scheme, objective, maintaining, operating	Industrial park	Nev1 (talk) 02:29, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
diplomatist	William Wade (English politician)	Malleus Fatuorum 22:25, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
[[vomiting|sick]]	Deep-fried Mars Bar	― A._di_M.2nd Dramaout (formerly Army1987) 15:03, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
human, dead, fear	Premature burial	Malleus Fatuorum 03:40, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
weather, air-conditioning × 3, lotion, electricity, vomiting, homes	Heat wave	Tony (talk) 10:36, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
'Litotes' is probably the worst here.	Civil confinement	Robofish (talk) 14:07, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
3	Phineas Flynn	The Flash {talk} 20:15, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
idea, expert	Zeppelin	Malleus Fatuorum 16:05, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
"father", and some other slightly less bad ones	James Coyne	Ucucha 20:45, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
dining room, engine, steel and litres	O'Mega	Brad (talk) 01:07, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
face	Death	Malleus Fatuorum 19:36, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
"life" and "college", though the latter is slightly more forgivable given the article	St. John's Northwestern Military Academy	Dabomb87 (talk) 04:53, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
orange juice; shoes	Brazil – United States relations	Tony (talk) 07:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
tennis, cycling, swimming, rollerskating, piano and opera, but methinks [[human swimming|swimming]] takes the biscuit	Jeanne Calment	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 13:52, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
eyesight, hearing	Irmgard von Stephani	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 14:12, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
song	Template:Pop_song_2	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:28, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
alloy, screwdriver	Bernhard Goetz	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 04:08, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
cat, tea, party	Olivia (TV series)	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:37, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Winner for January 2010: With 82 entries, January 2010 broke all records of participation. I am certainly very happy to see so many new faces. Unfortunately, this also means that my choice is made harder, and that I've had to pass over many excellent candidates. Now, the winner... From the article Civil confinement, an unexpected bit of linguistic meta-commentary in the form of the link [[Litotes|not without]]. Nominated by Robofish, it is a type of Easter egg that we should never, ever have to see in articles, and for this reason it wins this busy month's award.

• Two honourable mentions. First, SuperFlash101's "3", from Phineas Flynn. Not only was it entirely unnecessary but, as most Wikipedians know, it leads to the article for a year—specifically, the year when the rule of emperor Augustus was renewed for a ten-year period, and Wang Mang foiled a plot by his son, his brother-in-law and the Wei clan to oust him. Interesting stuff. Second, Majorly's "linked" from Rubber duck. I actually found "spoke" funnier, but one has to appreciate the self-referential nature of redundantly linking the word "link". Waltham, The Duke of 17:07, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

The 2009 prize

Winner for the year: From the shortlist of "window", "disaster", "head", "dog" and "Wikipedia", the silliest wikilink of 2009 is ... "window"! Congratulations, Ohconfucius; you get to hold the cup for one year. (His Grace the Duke of Waltham)

December 2009

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
bicycle, yawning, sneezing	Orgasm	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 04:45, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
bus	Paul Potts	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:46, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
cup	Los Angeles Galaxy	SkotyWATalk|Contribs 08:20, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia	Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)	Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 14:45, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
computer-generated cartoon elephant	Something, Something, Something, Dark Side	Bradley0110 (talk) 19:14, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
naked	Rage Against the Machine	Tony (talk) 01:30, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
person with birth & death tied for close 2nd	Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)	Sssoul (talk) 09:09, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Winner for December 2009: December 2009 was another month with worthy nominations, including the first two from non-mainspace pages. But the award can only go to one contender, and I have decided to bestow it upon Adrian J. Hunter for "Wikipedia" from Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies). The assumption that anyone would be reading a Wikipedia project page (in the Manual of Style of all places!) without knowing what Wikipedia is simply cannot go unrecognised. "Computer-generated cartoon elephant" initially seemed to be a strong contender on pure-silliness grounds, but I could not accept it because it was actually a group of links. (His Grace the Duke of Waltham)

November 2009

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
genetics, hybridity	Hebrew language	___A. di M. 14:22, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
dog	Characters of Final Fantasy VI	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 11:11, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
toilet attendant	Cheryl Cole	Tony (talk) 14:07, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
history	Sirindhorn	Dabomb87 (talk) 17:28, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Winner for November 2009: As tempting as "toilet attendant" may have been for its comedy value, one cannot ignore the fact that pretty much every person in the world old enough to read knows what a dog is. And even if they don't remember that one of the most prized qualities in a dog is loyalty, the reader was helpfully reminded of this in the text. The canine was mentioned (and linked) in passing in Characters of Final Fantasy VI and the winner for November 2009 is (again) Ohconfucius. (His Grace the Duke of Waltham)

October 2009

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
minor, parka, opera	Kim Jong-il	Ohconfucius (talk) 13:21, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
land	Celestial Heights	Ohconfucius (talk) 07:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
wife, milkshake	Hong Kong Parkview	Ohconfucius (talk) 10:07, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
wind, apples, sheep, captivity, hotel, train	Tasmania	Tony (talk) 08:26, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
book (um ....?)	Bryce Courtenay (novelist)	Tony (talk) 15:08, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
food	Hong Kong	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 07:58, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
lorry, arm, leg, head, knee, thigh	John Martin Scripps	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:49, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
draw, advantage	Spring (television soap)	Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:49, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Winner for October 2009: Many ridiculous links were nominated in October, but the difference in John Martin Scripps is that we have an entire collection of them. Nominated by Ohconfucius, who is this month's winner, the anatomy-themed links include such unknown concepts as "arms", "knees" and "torso". As only one link can actually be chosen, however, I have elected "head" to represent the group. Make of that what you will. (His Grace the Duke of Waltham)

September 2009

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
electric	Goodwood Cricket Club	Ohconfucius (talk) 08:09, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
vomit	AC/DC	Tony (talk) 15:24, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
bread, salad, cheese, fruits, nuts, sandals, footwear, stool, table and... spoon!	Roman Empire	Steve T • C 20:04, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
woman	Carol Ann Duffy	Malleus Fatuorum 09:17, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
apple	Alan Turing	Malleus Fatuorum 09:50, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
disaster	Elton John	Tony (talk) 07:44, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
novels, continent, human	A Song of Ice and Fire	Dabomb87 (talk) 21:51, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
coffin, roses, tulips, hairclip, lid	Yuri Andropov	Ohconfucius (talk) 13:25, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
pregnancy, gambling	Brian Epstein	Tony (talk) 16:19, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
telephone	Russell Crowe	Tony (talk) 13:40, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
mother, father, telephone	Eddie Murphy	Tony (talk) 16:43, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Winner for September 2009: Tony1 for "disaster" from Elton John. ("Human" and "lid" came close.) The link is pretty much self-describing; "utterly redundant" and "completely irrelevant" are the first characterisations to spring to mind, but this one also happens to grace a quotation. One almost expects an Easter egg there, explaining the exact nature of the disaster. This would be fine for the Daily Mail, but it is hardly appropriate for an encyclopaedia. (His Grace the Duke of Waltham)

August 2009

Linked item:	Article:	Nominator (signature)
rabbits	Fixation (visual)	Tony (talk) 09:28, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
alcohol	Ice fishing	Ohconfucius (talk) 10:10, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
windows, Fire, smoke	2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks	Ohconfucius (talk) 10:22, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
tram	Technocracy (bureaucratic)	Ohconfucius (talk) 17:24, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
scientist, modern times	Visual perception	Tony (talk) 08:53, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Winner for August 2009: Ohconfucius for his August nomination of "windows", from 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks. There was a hard fight between it and "alcohol" (not in a bar, though), for they were equally useless; in the end, the Microsoft association that pops up in one's head on second reading won the day for the transparent-opening-in-a-wall camp. (His Grace the Duke of Waltham)

See also

• WP:LINKING
• User:Tony1/Build_your_linking_skills