Talk:James Tucker

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"My name's Jim, but most people call me... Jim."[edit]

There was a Jim Tucker who was a member of The Turtles, and also Jim Tucker who was Maureen Tucker's brother, and a college friend of Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison. How would these guys best be described for article titles, even if they never got beyond stubs? Zephyrad (talk) 15:03, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: WP:MOS[edit]

Make links only where they are relevant to the context: It is not useful and can be very distracting to mark all possible words as hyperlinks. Links should add to the user's experience; they should not detract from it by making the article harder to read. A high density of links can draw attention away from the high-value links that you would like your readers to follow up. Redundant links clutter the page and make future maintenance harder.

Presuming this is the point a couple recent editors were acting on... Jim Tucker of the Turtles was neither a longtime band member now a breakout star from them, and his Wikipedia article is even briefer (1-2 lines) than his membership in the Turtles. Linking to the band's article does not "make the article harder to read", or "draw attention away from the high-value links" This MOS point does not apply, IMO. If anything, the link does "add to the user's experience", by saving them having to type in The Turtles. Zephyrad (talk) 16:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]