User talk:Gerry Harwood

Welcome!

Hello, Gerry Harwood, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Elekhh (talk) 18:09, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
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Overlinking
Hi Gerry, please see WP:OVERLINK regarding Wikipedia guidelines for wikilinks. --Elekhh (talk) 10:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm a relatively new user. I spent hours working on those additions.  They are well researched and expressed.  The edits reverse the chronic underlinking of an article that's been allowed to remain live for years.


 * I had understood the purpose of Wikipedia as being to improve knowledge and to make subjects, even arcane ones like this, widely available to all. The additions clearly add to existing knowledge.  I know because I'm a subject matter expert in this area.  The edits generally improve a deficient article and make parts of it understandable and relevant, particularly in 2010.


 * I know that that particular article needs many more improvements and I had planned to do those when I had more time. If the point of the excision is to emphasise that I added a few too many links, why not just say that gently and allow me to resolve it?   If your work just gets wiped out like this without a say in it, I'm not sure what the incentive is to participate in the project.  Can you enlighten me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gerry Harwood (talk • contribs) 7 February 2011
 * Gerry, you should not take it as an offence, and don't get discouraged. Please read the links I provided you, and the ones I just placed on the top of your page. Wikipedia has clear guidelines regarding linking which represent community consensus. According to these "overlinking should be avoided, because it makes it difficult for the reader to identify and follow links that are likely to be of value". Thus linking dozens of plain English words can be the opposite of improvement. --Elekhh (talk) 18:09, 7 February 2011 (UTC)