User talk:Desmonddelaney

July 2016
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Repetitive linking to same term
I hope this won't make you feel bad, but I was so struck by seeing a great number of links of the same term in one small section, that I then investigated further. That resulted in my making these changes, de-linking the repetitions of Bedaux System and a couple of Bedaux Unit. 14 links to the same term in one article is quite too many. As it is I left 5 links active - another editor would likely cut that down to two or one. (And then I'd feel that too few (sigh)).

Editing at Wikipedia is not quite 'free-form' and there is a manual of style at WP:MOS. The section operative here is WP:REPEATLINK which says:
 * Generally, a link should appear only once in an article, but if helpful for readers, a link may be repeated in infoboxes, tables, image captions, footnotes, hatnotes, and at the first occurrence after the lead.

Myself, I think repeating a link in a major section far removed from the first mention makes sense. But six repetitions in one short section is too many, so even I got worried.

Also note that Bedaux System currently links to Efficiency_Movement, and so then having links to Bedaux System inside that very same section - a self-link - is not a good thing. That was one of the four changes I did, de-linking those.

I don't want to get you down at all. By most people's estimations you contribute more to Wikipedia than I do, *because* you contribute contents, refs, etc. Me, I just sweep the floors. Thank you. Shenme (talk) 03:08, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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