User talk:TheWikiBadger

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Happy editing! Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:19, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Malcolmxl5! :) TheWikiBadger (talk) 17:55, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello and welcome to wikipedia. It's great that you are keen to edit here. However, a very large number of your edits appear to be going through biographies and changing links that are to a profession, to links that are to a list of people from the same country who shared that profession. This does not seem helpful. See these two sections of wikipedia's Manual of Style, MOS:CONTEXTLINK and MOS:FIRSTBIO, which both talk about the purpose of links in opening paragraphs, which is to provide context. A link to a list does not do this. I would kindly ask you to stop making these changes, and also to consider reverting many if not most of your edits. Thank you Melcous (talk) 06:42, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Melcous, thanks for the remark and for the link to the explanation! Should I then in your opinion revert to the previous state or give separate links for nationality and profession? TheWikiBadger (talk) 06:50, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Melcous, I started correcting the links that I previously edited and over the next days, this should be corrected. I am now putting separate links to the nationality and to the profession so that these do not link to the lists anymore. I started putting lists in the first place because I saw it in several articles. I have also seen the instructions that you mentioned, thanks again! TheWikiBadger (talk) 15:52, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted one of these on Wilhelm Cauer. Linking to Germans is overlinking and probably most of the others you have done. The link to mathematician is WP:OVERLINK as well although I didn't removed that one. Nationalities and common occupations are two of the things that the guideline explicitly identifies as not normally linked. We would usually only provide such links if the person belonged to an obscure nationality or profession that many readers would not know. A German mathematician does not come under that. But thanks for your efforts anyway. SpinningSpark 18:10, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

SpinningSpark, thanks for the additional info! I am in the process of changing the some of the links as advised by Melcous. I will continue to repair the links, but as you suggested, I will leave out the link to the Germans. TheWikiBadger (talk) 18:13, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

MOS:SEAOFBLUE is also worth bearing in mind here. If an article includes the phrase "German mathematicians" in blue text, anyone seeing that would expect to be taken to a page about German mathematicians, whichever word they clicked on. --Lord Belbury (talk) 18:29, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lord Belbury, thanks for the remark! In accordance with the advice given by SpinningSpark, I am now correcting some of my previous edits. TheWikiBadger (talk) 18:31, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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