User talk:BairnOwl

International Swimming League
I repeat it: there's no need of adding a wikilink whereas there is already one for that given athlete/article. Hope it's clear now. Stop doing it. --151.26.124.142 (talk) 22:06, 20 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Why can't we have links for all references to an athlete? I think it's super annoying to have to search through the page to find the singular link to a particular athlete. Plenty of other pages have duplicate links for tables of athletes so why not this one? BairnOwl (talk) 06:24, 21 October 2019 (UTC)


 * In fact, this situation needs to be fixed also on other pages, but the point is not that. There are two sections in the manual of style explaining clearly why it's not necessary duplicating it. And for this exact reason, your last edits have been (again) reverted. --151.26.102.42 (talk) 22:28, 26 October 2019 (UTC)


 * "...but if helpful for readers, a link may be repeated in infoboxes, tables ..." I would argue that duplicate links are helpful in this instance. Like I said, it's annoying to have to search all over the page for a link to a particular athlete, when you could just link it everywhere it's relevant. And from the editor's perspective, it's hard to keep track of which athletes have been linked already, and which haven't. Can you stop reverting my edits without discussing this? I've definitely seen duplicate links everywhere in Wikipedia tables, far more than I've seen duplicate links removed, so why aren't you policing those pages? BairnOwl (talk) 23:27, 26 October 2019 (UTC)


 * I could say the same about duplicating the links in each page of Wikipedia. It doesn't mean nothing: everyone should contribute according to their own possibilities (hoping that other users know what to do and do that according to Wikipedia principles and rules). Now, I'm gonna explain it again, if you want to understand it, it's good: duplicating a link should be considered if helpful for readers (among other things) but the editor should not abuse of this instrument because the first important principle stays that of inserting the wiki link one time and one time only. It's the same thing with templates for flags, icons and other features you can insert into a page: it's good if helpful for a reader but always remember that it shouldn't be overused. And on that page there is already a wikilink for each athlete in the teams roster table and on the events results one (plus more will be added). What's the point of doing that? --151.26.102.42 (talk) 00:42, 27 October 2019 (UTC)


 * I think we'll just have to agree to disagree about what would be helpful for readers. Even if we go by the principle that athletes should only be linked once, I think linking them once in the score tables and then never again is just plain inconsistent and ugly. I think it would be best to either remove all links from the score tables (since there are links in the roster table, as you pointed out) or link everywhere. But whatever. Since you won't budge on this topic, I'll acquiesce. BairnOwl (talk) 21:49, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Your idea is not totally bad: actually we could use the wikilink more than once in the score tables but I would say at most once for each race (for example once for the 100 backstroke, once for the 50 freestyle, etc.). It would be overused, instead, if we use wikilink for each row of each column: that would be too much. --151.26.102.42 (talk) 23:10, 27 October 2019 (UTC)


 * All right, let's do that then. BairnOwl (talk) 02:24, 28 October 2019 (UTC)