User talk:Mrco

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--WillMak050389 17:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: "Excessive linking"

Hi Mrco - I've seen your note on my Talk page about automatically linking words that have corresponding articles.

An interesting suggestion, so I thought I'd see what happened if that's done for any piece of text. I chose as my examples the first few words of your note and the first paragraph on today's featured article. This is what happens:

Your note on my Talk page:

Hi I've been reading your user page

Today's featured article:

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951 in Chiswick, London, England), better known as Phil Collins, is a British rock/pop musician. He is best known as the lead singer and drummer of progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy winning solo artist.

It turns out that almost every word has a corresponding article, but most of them don't relate to the context. So I reckon it's probably not workable unless Wikipedia software can be made "smarter" to avloid linking words like "is".

There's probably a Wikipedia guideline only linking relevant words (but I haven't tried to look).

Cheers, --A bit iffy 07:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well I meant turning the longest possible expression that has a Wikipedia article into a link, something like:

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951 in Chiswick, London, England), better known as Phil Collins, is a British rock/pop musician. He is best known as the lead singer and drummer of progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy winning solo artist.

Well some guesses were wrong.. Even if there was an article about solo artists who won Grammy awards it would be List of solo artists who won Grammy awards so probably article naming conventions would have to be changed too for this to be useful. Anyway the process would be simply to tokenize on dots and maybe some other strings to get a "sentence" and then tokenize on spaces to get words, and see if a sentence has an article, if not take away the last word and check again until an article is found, then repeat the whole process starting from the next word. It would be fairly lengthy but I hope Wikipedia already employs some cache and pages are not regenerated on every pageview. --Mrco 17:55, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. The links you added to the page 4chan have been removed. Please do not add commercial links—or links to your own private websites—to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Ryulong 03:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That is not spam (it is not my site, and not a commercial site.. It's a 4chon 'meme'). And the 4chon article already links to 4chan.org which is a commercial site.

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