User talk:ShaykhShahid

Adding links to articles
Hello, ShaykhShahid, and welcome to contributing to Wikipedia. I see that some of your edits have added links from one article to another, known as "wikilinks". Wikilinks can be very helpful, but it is a very common mistake among new editors to add too many wikilinks to articles. Generally speaking, a wikilink should be added only if it provides information which is likely to help readers of the article in which the link is placed to understand content of that article, or provide further information closely connected to content of that article. That normally means either a link to an article which explains words or expressions in the article containing the link, or a link to an article which provides background information which is necessary in order to understand content of the article containing the link. Linking to articles in other situations is not just unnecessary, it can actually be harmful, because research has established that the more irrelevant, or only slightly relevant, links there are in a page, the less likely readers are to find the ones which they might find useful. Thus, for example, nobody reading the article Elizabeth Donald (painter) is likely to need to consult the article New Zealand in order to understand what "New Zealand" means, nor does the article New Zealand contain any information about Elizabeth Donald, so linking the one to the other is not likely to be helpful. JBW (talk) 12:34, 6 February 2024 (UTC)