User talk:Maladano

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Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 15:42, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Inappropriate linking

There were several problems with links that you added:

1. Wrong links
   • On A5199 road, you placed [[East Coast Main Line|East Coast]]. The East Coast Main Line railway has nought to do with East Coast ports.
   • On Tornadoes of 1984, you placed [[Barneveldse Krant|Barneveld]]. Barneveldse Krant is a local daily newspaper in the Netherlands & has nothing to do with Barneveld, Wisconsin.
2. Malformed & misdirected
   • On Gazelle, you placed [[Northwestern Sub-Saharan Africa,]]. Not only is the target wikilink malformed with a comma, it would be pointed to a non-existent target. I corrected it to northwestern Sub-Saharan Africa, .
3. Why not the whole article title?
   • On 1965–66 Mexican Segunda División season, you placed [[Texcoco de Mora|Texcoco]]. Why not instead use the actual name of the town, Texcoco de Mora?
4. Unlikely red links
   • On Great Basin Murders, you wikilinked [[Barbara Kaye Williams]] without explanation. Barbara Kaye Williams has been unlinked since the creation of the article. There is no Wikidata item for her & this article is the only place that name is mentioned. This is unlikely to become a stand-alone article.
   • On Tachyporinae, you wikilinked [[crab-like rove]]. Since you seemed not to have noticed, the opening two sentences read Tachyporinae is a subfamily of rove beetle. Their common name is crab-like rove beetles. Wikilinking crab-like rove, if the redirect existed, would simply point back at the very same article where you placed the red link.

I have reviewed the rest of your edits. Those seem to generally be improvements. Please take care with the Wikilinks that you place so that they are as good a quality as the rest of your edits. Peaceray (talk) 17:35, 8 July 2024 (UTC)