User talk:Hadrians

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  I'm doing my best to Be Bold but at the moment I am confident in just adding very minor edits to Wikipedia, such as spelling and punctuation corrections and internal links. ---

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Linking policy
I noticed you made a lot of edits adding links to years and decades. I would point out that according to Only make links that are relevant to the context and Manual of Style (dates and numbers), such links are unhelpful as they add very little to the article. I disapprove of users making mass edits which are of little substance, as each edit consumes resources, not just the physical resources of the server but also the time of those who have to check your edits of articles on their watchlist. I hope you understand that edits like these are not a particularly good idea. If you wish to add such links in a discriminating way which you can justify, or as part of a larger copyedit, I would have less of a problem with that. --Guinnog 05:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Not sure I agree with this view - I have been making decisions about where adding internal links enhance the articles, and it is a move towards me being bold which I have made clear - however, I will step back and have a think before making any more edits - never expected to get told off like that :-)

Please don't wikify years unless they are part of a month/day combination. It does nothing to help formatting or provide readers with useful information. Rklawton 05:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * If you want to get involved in stuff like this that will actually help the project, I have a couple of suggestions for you. WP:TYPO corrects spelling mistakes and Disambiguation pages with links avoids redirects. Incidentally, did you mean to erase my previous message? --Guinnog 06:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Reply to your message on Gwernol's talk page
Hi Hadrians, thanks for the message left on my talk page. I'm not entirely clear what you are referring to. As far as I am aware I haven't left any "analysis of your contributions to Wikipedia". Could you point out where this is, so I have some context for the conversation? Thanks, Gwernol 14:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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