User talk:Kylin13

House's Head
Hi Kylin13, regarding some of your generally helpful wikilinking on House's Head, I think you were going a bit overboard. In a nutshell, you shouldn't link the same word twice, and you don't need to link common English words that won't really add anything to the reader's understanding. So for example a word like pulmonary embolism is a good one to link, as some readers might not know what that is, or want more information. But words like crash, bartender, motorcycle, or treadmill, are common words that the reader most likely won't be seeking more information about. Remember the more links you add, the less they stand out. This isn't just my personal opinion; it's in the manual of style; see also Overlinking. Thanks, --Fletcher (talk) 16:11, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Fletcher, thanks for the info. I was actually wondering where I could find information on that.  Another item you edited from what I did was excessive linking.  Excessive linking according to MoS means "more than once for the same term, in a line or a paragraph", which I believe I followed pretty well.  In the long plot summaries, someone who is not familiar with the show and the characters may skip the first time "Cuddy" or "Thirteen" was mentioned but by the third or fourth time may want to know who they are.  If the link is in the middle of a paragraph, a couple paragraphs up, it may be hard to find.  In House's Head, this only happened to House, but in other summaries that I've edited, minor characters were mentioned several times, and a person may have a hard time finding a link.  Thanks again, Kylin13 (talk) 19:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)