Talk:Maltese National Badminton Championships

Linking
It is extremely unlikely that articles are going to be created for all or even a few of the Maltese Badminton players in this article, so linking all of them indiscriminately is inappropriate. Links can be added if articles are created. Pre-emptively adding them creates situations where a reader clicks on a link to A. Jackson, expecting to find out more about a 1960s Maltese Badminton player, and is taken to an article about a 19th-century American president. (My favourite example of this overlinking was an article about an election for Mayor of Toronto which suggested through a link that former Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson had been one of the candidates. Of course, he wasn't.) Since the overwhelming majority of the links to people in this article are dead links or incorrect links, I'm removing them again. There was not a single link to a valid article about these people, so the reader is no worse off because of the removal of these links. Ground Zero | t 22:05, 13 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Not good. This is not the way we are doing in the badminton project. A lot of the Maltese players participated at the world championships, please have a look at the German version of the site. If you want to change the common way of linking in badminton, so please use Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Badminton. By the way, due to your edits you deleted content, duplicated templates and introduced about 20 misspellings. (What is by the way one of the advantages of redlinks, the easy way of finding misspellings.) --Florentyna (talk) 08:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

And now seven months on, we see that the only live links to names in the article are mis-directs. Not a single article has been created about any of these players. These links do not help the reader. Ground Zero | t 17:47, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Make that eleven months on. There is no reason to believe that articles will ever be created for any of these people, and the user who has insisted on keeping these links has not created a single article for these people. As Red link says, "Articles should not have red links to topics that are not likely to have an article...." and "Articles should not have red links to topics that are not likely to have an article...." It is also likely that it would not be possible to write an article about almost all of these people that would meet the requirement of WP:BIO because there would not be reliable sources for doing so. Ground Zero | t 23:04, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Four years
Four years later, there is not a single blue link on this page. No-one has created an article about a Maltese badminton play. So can we conclude that they are not notable? Ground Zero &#124; t 13:27, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Seven years later
The only blue link appearing on this page was a bad link to an Australian rugby player. Not a single article has been created about the people linked here. This demonstrates how the practice of linking every name does not serve the reader or Wikipedia. And it continues to violate Wikipedia policy. Ground Zero &#124; t 22:25, 20 March 2019 (UTC)