User talk:Violet Baudelaire224

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Please stop adding redundant wiki links to articles. See WP:MOS#Wikilinking for guidance. Thank you - Itsfullofstars 03:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, it's me again. I know you're new so mistakes happen, but please, when you create a wikilink using the [[link goes here]] convention, always check the result by clicking on the new wikilink(s) you just made. Unfortunately, often you are creating links to irrelevant articles that just happen to have the same name, but are unrelated. For example, click this Harrison link (which you put in some Beatles articles). You'll see it points to a generic Harrison page, not George's. It should have looked like [[George Harrison | Harrison]] to get to George's article, while still only showing the word "Harrison" on the screen. The | character acts as a separator, with the true article name on the left side of the |, and the visible link on the right side. Another incorrect link you made was Snowbird in an Elvis article, which should have looked like [[Snowbird (song) | Snowbird]] (this one works the way you want it to: Snowbird).

Another example was a link to a song called Release Me you added, but it pointed to a totally different song that Elvis couldn't have covered, since the wikipedia "Release Me" article is for a song written after he died. Checking the results of your editing efforts in the preview stage will help keep incorrect linking from happening. You can right-click on each new link you make first, and open the link in a new window to test it out. Also, unless you are planning on creating articles for all those newly-created 'red link' articles, I think it's probably best you shouldn't be making so many of them.

Sorry to be a pain about all this... After all, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party! - Itsfullofstars 10:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's another useful help page, on using 'piped links' (the ones with the | in them, as I described above) - Itsfullofstars 00:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Piped links