User talk:Helen2397

Linking and overlinking
Hi!

It's great that you want to contribute to Wikipedia! However, I see that most of your edits are adding internal links, and while they are very important for keeping Wikipedia an easy to use, informative place, there can be too much of a good thing. Wikipedia has many guidelines, formulated through years of discussion by the community. Some of them are linked above in the welcome message. One of them is the Manual of Style, which ensures that the articles have a precise and consistent language, layout, and formatting. One of the subsections of the manual is the guideline on linking. This guideline says, in part, that you should avoid linking:
 * Everyday words understood by most readers in context (e.g., education, violence, aircraft, river)
 * Common occupations (e.g., accountant, politician, actor)
 * The names of subjects with which most readers will be at least somewhat familiar. This generally includes examples of:
 * countries (e.g., Japan/Japanese, Brazil/Brazilian)
 * geographic features (e.g., the Himalayas, Pacific Ocean, South America)
 * locations (e.g., Berlin; New York City, or just New York if the city context is already clear; London, if the context rules out London, Ontario; Southeast Asia)
 * languages (e.g., English, Arabic, Korean, Spanish)
 * nationalities and ethnicities (e.g., English, British, Chinese, Turkish, African-American, Hispanic)
 * religions (e.g., Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism)
 * Dates

Several of your edits, especially on the articles for the Equality Act 2010 and Feminism in China, link some of these discouraged items, so please keep the guidelines in mind in your future editing. But don't take this as a discouragement from editing Wikipedia! Editing Wikipedia can be an opaque and puzzling process. Nobody knows all the guidelines right away, and everyone was once a new editor. Please use the teahouse help forum if you have any questions, and good luck with your future editing! Signed: Knuthove (talk) 19:32, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 1
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 * African feminism
 * added a link pointing to Hausa
 * Gender inequality in Liberia
 * added a link pointing to Deprivation
 * Women in China
 * added a link pointing to Lineage
 * Women in Iran
 * added a link pointing to Assembly

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April 2021
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Women in China, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

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More generally, if an article needs 90 things fixed, you can make all of those changes in one edit rather than 90 small consecutive edits, each adding one set of brackets to turn a word into a link. Lord Belbury (talk) 11:46, 1 April 2021 (UTC)


 * That is somewhat true, but very large changes in one go is not necessaríly good either, editors who are watching a specific article like to understand what is happening. One section at a time can be a good rule of thumb. I generally prefer smaller edits myself. See also WP:ES. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:58, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 8
An automated process has detected that you recently added links to disambiguation pages.
 * Gender inequality in Liberia
 * added a link pointing to Deprivation
 * Women in China
 * added a link pointing to Lineage

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