User talk:Heather-2004

Care about Wikilinks
It is not always helpful to add links in articles to other articles just because it is possible to do so. For example, in the article Bosman Family Vineyards you added a link to the article South Africa. However, I don't see any way in which that link is likely to help anyone reading Bosman Family Vineyards. The article South Africa does not provide the reader with any information about Bosman Family Vineyards, nor is it likely that a reader to that article will need a link in order to find out what "South Africa" means. Adding unnecessary links can be detrimental to an article, for several reasons, including the fact that it can make it difficult to know which links are relevant and which aren't, leading sometimes to a frustrating waste of time caused by following links which turn out to be irrelevant. Wikipedia's manual of style says that "Appropriate links provide instant pathways to locations ... that are likely to increase readers' understanding of the topic at hand". Before adding a link, it is worth carefully considering whether that applies to the link under consideration. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:07, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

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