User talk:Peashy
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I was doing some copy editing and found many links to the same articles. I started removing the second-and-subsequent links but then thought I should just make sure that it was at least good practice, if not policy, that words/phrases should be linked only once - I couldn't find such a policy or convention. I must say for myself that when reading an article I find too many links a distraction, and especially so when the word has been linked previously in the same article. Can someone enlighten me, please? Peashy 12:24, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- You are correct, if a word or phrase is linked once in an article, it should not be linked again. I believe that this is an official policy of Wikipedia, but am not exactly sure which one it falls under. I believe that what you did was good practice, and if anybody has any objections to your actions, Let them know about the policy.I think if you were to go look at policies on Wikipedia you could find it easily. --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 12:38, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- Hi there Peashy. There's a section in the manual of style about overlinking here. Only important links that are directly relevent to the article should be linked more than once. --Casper2k3 12:41, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks to both of you - it was quite obvious where Casper2k3 pointed me to. My mother told me I always looked with my nose! Peashy 15:21, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- Hi there Peashy. There's a section in the manual of style about overlinking here. Only important links that are directly relevent to the article should be linked more than once. --Casper2k3 12:41, 29 August 2006 (UTC)