Wikipedia: History of Rules to consider/Make links relevant

Difference (from prior major revision) (no other diffs)

Changed: 3c3,7

When creating a web page, a Wikipedia page, an Everything 2 writeup, or any other hyperlinked document, do not just link every single word; this becomes annoying rather quickly. Don't just randomly sprinkle brackets around words either. Make sure a link implies some clear association between the page you create and the page you link to. If you mention something more than once, don't link a word or phrase every time it appears; this gets boring.

When creating a web page, a Wikipedia page, a writeup in House of Bias, or any other hypertext document, do not just link every single word; this becomes annoying rather quickly. Don't just randomly sprinkle brackets around words either. Make sure a link implies some clear association between the page you create and the page you link to. If you mention something more than once, don't link a word or phrase every time it appears; this gets boring.

Some general guidelines:
*link the first occurrence of a related topic, and
*link subsequent occurrences that seem of higher "wanna jump there now" relevance.

Changed: 7c11

Discussion in Make links relevant talk

Discussion in Rules to consider/Make only links relevant to the context debate

	Revision 3 . . September 29, 2001 11:47 am by Damian Yerrick [added MichaelTinkler's guidelines and fixed broken discussion link]
	Revision 2 . . September 29, 2001 10:28 am by Larry Sanger [Vetoing link to Everything2. Since Wikipedia is ABSOLUTELY NOT like Everything 2, by this very rule, it's not relevant to link to it. :-)]