User talk:Secularone

Regarding your changes to Myles Standish article
You keep making changes to links in the article which are breaking the connection to the articles they are supposed to go to. Almost every edit you have made has done this. You seem to be misunderstanding how "piped links" work. Normally, when you want to link to a Wikipedia article, you enclose the word in brackets, for example, the if you want to link to the article "Wikipedia" you would type Wikipedia which gives you Wikipedia. However, you can also have different text from the link to the actual articles. You do this by using what are called pipe links. For example, if I wanted to link to the Wikipedia article, but have it say something else, like "open source encyclopedia", then I would type open source encyclopedia which will give me open source encyclopedia. If you click on this blue link, it brings you to the Wikipedia article. So this brings us to the crux of the problem. In the Myles Standish articles, we have links like this: Now, when you change the word in the link from British to English, you change the link to Captain (English Army and Royal Marines) which, as you can see from the red link, is not an article that exists. However, it doesn't matter, because what the reader sees is the words to the RIGHT of the pipe, so the person who reads the article only sees Captain, which if they click, brings them to the correct article which describes the use of the Captain rank in the British and English armies. So, by changing these links, you don't improve the article or make it more accurate, all you are doing is breaking the connection to the actual article these links are supposed to direct the reader to. If you would let me know, at the article's talk page, located here: Talk:Myles Standish what you are ACTUALLY trying to do, I can help you do it correctly, so we can stop fighting over this. --Jayron32. talk . contribs 00:10, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Captain which links to our article titled Captain (British Army and Royal Marines) but displays the word Captain.