Search Results: Wikipedia:MOSLINK


Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking
Rabu, 2026-07-29 02:58:20

Linking through hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. Internal links bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Interwikimedia...

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Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/IWGP Tag Team Championship/archive1
Minggu, 2026-01-04 05:46:34

the redundant word). "United States" should generally not be linked. See MOSLINK. Cr 2: the lead seems like an inadequate entree into the list. Double or...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-02-23/Discussion report
Sabtu, 2024-01-06 08:02:31

the current guideline on that subject, which is this page [MOSLINK] Rename this page [MOSLINK to] Wikipedia:Linking The actions have been met with general...

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Wikipedia:Update/1/General style changes during December 2008
Senin, 2023-03-20 15:02:24

links and identify related articles. Many changes to WP:MOSLINK#Red links Added to WP:MOSLINK#Capitalization: "(But capitalization does matter for all...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Georg Cantor/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-23 21:00:00

terms like Germany, Scotland, malnourishment and Swiss per WP:CONTEXT, WP:MOSLINK. Fixed, or at least significantly improved, according to my best judgment...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Capybara/archive1
Rabu, 2025-05-14 23:22:28

increased content that will be needed. There is some WP:OVERLINKing (see WP:MOSLINK), citation formatting needs to be completely reworked (see WP:CITE/ES)...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Silverchair discography
Minggu, 2022-12-11 05:10:56

wikilinking every time reduces sheer usability, but I still stand by WP:MOSLINK, which argues that links are only necessary the first time per major...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New Orleans Saints first-round draft picks/archive1
Senin, 2023-02-27 22:31:30

understand the names but the positions and colleges are overlinked. Look at WP:MOSLINK, that should help with linking. Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 19:08, 15...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Phan Dinh Phung/archive1
Jumat, 2025-01-17 21:22:53

autoformatting and which now prescribes rules for the raw formatting), and MOSLINK and CONTEXT, so I've reduced some of it to allow your high-value links...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Greencards/archive2
Minggu, 2022-05-22 03:42:52

think of one, though). Please don't link "Australia" and "England". See WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT]]. "who had all immigrated to the United States and specifically...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Oil shale/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-23 17:42:38

in the lead, for example) should not be linked (see WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSLINK), while uncommon or technical terms should be linked or defined on first...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/Greco-Buddhism/archive1
Selasa, 2022-05-17 01:39:28

WP:LAYOUT, See also templates are used at the top of sections. Per WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT, common words shouldn't be linked, and relevant words should...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2000
Senin, 2024-11-18 03:22:06

FIXED!! Do we need a link for the common term "department stores"? See WP:MOSLINK. Unsure the link for "Spanish language" effort will help the reader; it's...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Hobart Area Transportation Study/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 16:54:31

AJona1992 WP:DAB: found one Lead 01. 1965 doesn't need to be wikiliked per WP:MOSLINK 02. "Target" shouldn't be capitalize per WP:MOSCAPS History 01. This section...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Rotavirus/archive1
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 16:28:49

first few sections; the remainder should be reviewed.[1] Have a look at WP:MOSLINK for guidance. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:54, 19 November 2007 (UTC) The lead...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tokyo Mew Mew/archive1
Minggu, 2023-02-19 06:37:53

why DVD should be linked at all is beyond me, but twice in a sentence? MOSLINK says avoid the linking of the names of familiar countries, esp. anglopohone...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Peru
Sabtu, 2022-12-10 12:27:48

language sources. The article is overlinked; have a look at WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSLINKS. Also, have a look at WP:MOSNUM and WP:CONTEXT for how to handle centuries...

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Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/log/August 2008
Senin, 2008-08-25 07:51:13

the redundant word). "United States" should generally not be linked. See MOSLINK. Cr 2: the lead seems like an inadequate entree into the list. Double or...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ramblin' Wreck
Rabu, 2022-03-23 19:16:59

emdash rather than endash, and See also contains spaced emdashes. See WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT; common words known to most English speakers need not be...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 July 31
Kamis, 2022-02-24 16:19:43

interested in this writer would likely be interested in his works. WP:MOSLINK seems to suggest that, when English links are not available, foreign language...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Wolfmother discography/archive1
Sabtu, 2024-11-16 23:28:31

Avoid linking the names of anglophone countries and nationalities (see MOSLINK). Remove "native", since you've told us that already. Avoid "currently"...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Copy-editing essentials
Kamis, 2026-06-04 19:15:59

necessary only for more technological and technical MilHist topics); and WP:MOSLINK, for advice on wikilinking and external linking. These pages have detailed...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/George Moore (novelist)/archive1
Minggu, 2022-05-01 08:38:20

(UTC) And under-referenced—1c. I have a question, Tony. Looking at the WP:MOSLINKS standard, there may be some low added-value links in the article like some...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Eshmun Temple/archive1
Rabu, 2025-09-24 22:07:24

to be light blue? "ancient texts" is the pipe for "Phonecian alphabet"? MOSLINK discourages deceptive pipes. Why not "ancient texts in the Phonecian alphabet"...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-08-13/Op-ed
Sabtu, 2024-01-06 09:08:50

disappointing. Even blue link phobia is very common these days and enforced by WP:MOSLINK. I'm finding myself having to regularly copy and paste interesting topics...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Carbon/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-23 20:46:13

not likely to be misunderstood (like "seconds") are also linked. See WP:MOSLINK for more details. The article is sketchy on its referencing. The first...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rwanda/archive1
Minggu, 2023-02-19 01:57:50

Fixed - I have unblued a lot of repeated links. I have, however, per WP:MOSLINK, retained repeated links in (a) infoboxes and picture captions, (b) occurrences...

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Wikipedia:Date linking request for comment
Rabu, 2022-03-16 14:04:39

be an exception to the rule of relevancy? I believe strongly in the WP:MOSLINK statement: "Internal links add to the cohesion and utility of Wikipedia...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of NASA Administrators
Minggu, 2022-05-22 03:17:13

autoformatting and now prescribes rules for the raw formatting); please also see MOSLINK and CONTEXT. I note your comment that you can't cope with US formatting—but...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Manzanar/archive1
Selasa, 2024-10-01 11:40:17

thoughts about this? Gmatsuda 08:56, 5 August 2007 (UTC) Please see WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT regarding overlinking of common terms in the article; I...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Aldermaston/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-16 13:56:18

the FAC process; and I'm sorry to be rude ... don't take it personally.] MOSLINK says try not to bunch up links, and link to the most specific item: why...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Style guidelines/Copy-editing essentials
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 04:19:49

Style main page; MOSNUM (for specialist advice on numbers and dates); and MOSLINK, for advice on wikilinking and external linking. These documents contain...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/United States v. Wong Kim Ark/archive2
Kamis, 2025-12-18 12:20:14

bit of WP:OVERLINKing in the article. See my sample edits, and see WP:MOSLINK. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:02, 7 February 2012 (UTC) Are there sources which...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/New Worlds (magazine)/archive1
Sabtu, 2021-09-25 16:08:43

bit troublesome. Burroughs is first mentioned in a quote, and since WP:MOSLINK says that "items within quotations should not generally be linked" the...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Belgium)/archive1
Sabtu, 2022-12-10 12:34:30

encouraged, and here, the high-value links need to breathe. Please see WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT on this issue, plus the trivial linking of the names of...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Modern Family (season 1)/archive1
Kamis, 2022-05-26 16:30:30

terms next to each other, appearing to be a link to a single article (WP:MOSLINK) You could unlink "comedy" and "television series" without losing understanding...

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Wikipedia:Set index articles
Senin, 2026-07-20 23:42:53

references to independent sources. Gives examples of inappropriate articles. WP:MOSLINK → WP:Manual of Style/Linking Guidelines as to when links should and should...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway
Senin, 2022-05-16 15:08:31

26 August 2008 (UTC) PS "Railway" and "London": why linked. Please see MOSLINK and CONTEXT. Tony (talk) 11:46, 26 August 2008 (UTC) Done.--DavidCane (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tropical Storm Chantal (2001)
Minggu, 2026-02-22 06:14:43

autoformatting and which now prescribes rules for the raw formatting), and MOSLINK and CONTEXT, so I've reduced some of it to allow your high-value links...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/West Bromwich Albion F.C. seasons
Senin, 2022-04-18 09:19:11

repeating the links where they are relatively distant (as advised by WP:MOSLINK). I'm also looking into increasing the linking to the divisons, as this...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/California Condor
Rabu, 2022-03-23 16:30:16

sample edits I made (WP:MOSBOLD, WP:MOSNUM, WP:MOSDATE, WP:CONTEXT, WP:MOSLINK, WP:DASH and pruning of external links per WP:EL, WP:RS, WP:NOT). SandyGeorgia...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive518
Kamis, 2023-06-29 02:41:03

discussions, it was merged with two other guideline pages to make the page WP:MOSLINK. This merger was well received and (once a few niggles over wording were...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Song Dynasty
Jumat, 2023-02-10 04:47:49

of China infobox on the right and images on the left. Also, refer to WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT, common terms known to most English speakers need not be...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Derek Jeter/archive1
Rabu, 2025-09-24 05:58:29

(UTC) Both over and underlinking need review. See WP:OVERLINKing and WP:MOSLINK. Baseball jargon should all be linked or defined on first occurrence, common...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/Political integration of India/archive1
Selasa, 2022-05-17 01:37:20

Arvind (talk) 09:51, 14 December 2007 (UTC) Lots of WP:OVERLINKing, see WP:MOSLINK and also lots ofWP:MOSDATE linking issues, full dates should be linked...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/Stuyvesant High School/archive1
Selasa, 2022-05-17 01:36:32

which is it, and isn't there a link? (Note, review all wikilinking per WP:MOSLINK and WP:OVERLINK). Why does this need seven citations? and regularly trades...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2013 August 6
Jumat, 2023-02-10 13:21:11

policies/guidelines. But what's the best discussion place -- WT:EL? WT:CITE/WT:NOR? WP:MOSLINK (MOS/links)? WP:MOSACCESS (MOS accessibility)? Links/cite/OR/MOS noticeboards...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive177
Minggu, 2023-04-09 01:29:27

against the free linking of chronological items (see also WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSLINK); all three are parts of the Manual of Style. I first want to extend the...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Pat Nixon
Senin, 2023-03-20 09:37:44

Nixon as well. Happyme22 (talk) 05:26, 20 August 2008 (UTC) Please see WP:MOSLINK on the linking of common words, such as "charity". "Volunteerism" is probably...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of the Kalka River/archive1
Minggu, 2022-05-22 03:58:53

thoughout. Let your high-value links breathe. This is a MOS breach—please see MOSLINK and CONTEXT. Done. I unlinked them. Kyriakos (talk) 22:50, 11 July 2008...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2013 May 4
Jumat, 2023-03-03 02:17:20

04:28, 4 May 2013 (UTC) Guidelines and rules of thumb can be found at WP:MOSLINK Cyphoidbomb (talk) 06:04, 4 May 2013 (UTC) Can someone move the above article...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive94
Sabtu, 2023-02-18 21:46:10

article whose edits/reverts repeatedly violate WP:RS, WP:CONSENSUS & WP:MOSLINKS, as well as removing legitimate templates (most notably one pointing out...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Carnivàle
Rabu, 2025-09-24 02:00:34

and HBO need repeat linking). Please review all of the linking per WP:MOSLINK. Here's a hanging ref tag, be sure to run through the entire article looking...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/2000 Summer Olympics medal count
Kamis, 2026-01-22 03:41:19

wrong with this article. Good job! Annoyomous24 21:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC) MOSLINK and CONTEXT both say to avoid the linking of common geographical names...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Failed log/February 2011
Sabtu, 2011-02-26 06:31:21

terms next to each other, appearing to be a link to a single article (WP:MOSLINK) You could unlink "comedy" and "television series" without losing understanding...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive515
Rabu, 2026-03-11 01:39:57

guideline page WP:Build the web would be merged with two other pages at WP:MOSLINK, and this was successfully done. Now a couple of editors have (without...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Deep vein thrombosis/archive3
Rabu, 2022-03-23 20:51:52

think that applies here. Colin°Talk 20:15, 19 November 2012 (UTC) See WP:MOSLINK and WP:OVERLINK-- there is still some overlinking (aspirin, for example)...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive519
Senin, 2026-03-23 01:27:17

was not enough discussion for there to be consensus to merge BTW with MOSLINK and CONTEXT. Yet you persist here trying to force your "consensus" (which...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive168
Senin, 2023-12-11 04:14:13

arises from major changes to long-standing practice, in MoS (main), MOSNUM, MOSLINK and CONTEXT last month.Tony (talk) 10:36, 8 September 2008 (UTC) For me...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Shakespeare authorship question/archive2
Rabu, 2022-03-23 17:33:42

article text. I always thought this was prohibited, but my look at WP:MOSLINK#Link titles proved inconclusive. Picture size should as a rule be at free...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive504
Selasa, 2024-09-03 05:32:48

linked, falling explicitly under the category of "plain English words". WP:MOSLINK states "In tables and infoboxes, units should not be internally linked...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Failed log/December 2007
Minggu, 2007-12-30 08:31:00

understand the names but the positions and colleges are overlinked. Look at WP:MOSLINK, that should help with linking. Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 19:08, 15...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/July 2008
Sabtu, 2012-12-15 21:19:16

wrong with this article. Good job! Annoyomous24 21:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC) MOSLINK and CONTEXT both say to avoid the linking of common geographical names...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive859
Rabu, 2026-06-24 14:32:40

the "languages" section on the left for entire articles. I did read WP:MOSLINK, WP:REDLINK, and WP:INTERWIKI which show the mechanics, but are they appropriate...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive847
Minggu, 2024-10-20 04:13:43

there would be some point so I did. He is confusing with guidelines of WP:MOSLINK and not willing to talk about the WP:OVERLINKING guideline. There are a...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/First-move advantage in chess
Selasa, 2025-09-23 21:46:14

two links "next to each other in the text" are prohibited by WP:MOSLINK. No, MOSLINK says "An article may be overlinked if any of the following is true...

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive130
Selasa, 2026-04-14 04:38:28

glacier-related edits to reinsert a link to 'USA', which is discouraged per MOSLINK, whilst at the same time removing the {{use mdy dates}} template. I don't...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Davenport, Iowa/archive3
Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:53:03

county, state, country bunches the links in a way that is discouraged by WP:MOSLINK. Why not focus the blue link-indicator on the most specific, from which...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Red River Trails
Rabu, 2022-03-23 19:18:06

repeat throughout the article - these are generally unnecessary. See WP:MOSLINK for advice on linking. Ox cart is sometimes spelled "oxcart" and sometimes...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Made in the Dark
Rabu, 2025-09-24 05:57:49

from the text) would make a difference. Overlinking: please note that MOSLINK says not to link the names of commonly known countries (i.e., nationalities...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/March 2008
Sabtu, 2010-12-18 06:20:21

wikilinking every time reduces sheer usability, but I still stand by WP:MOSLINK, which argues that links are only necessary the first time per major...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/November 2008
Selasa, 2010-11-23 01:11:27

much of a linking expert actually, ask User:Tony1 or put a question on WT:MOSLINK. This linking issue is not a deal-breaker, I'm still willing to support...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Illinois (album)/archive3
Kamis, 2025-09-04 18:54:39

article anyway. Better to focus the reader on a single patch of blue. See MOSLINK on bunched links. Removed links Jujutacular talk 04:21, 30 October 2010...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Aggie Bonfire
Selasa, 2024-12-31 00:03:11

punctuated, sentence fragments are not. Overlinked, see WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSLINK, common terms known to most English speakers need not be linked. Surely...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Don Valley Parkway/archive2
Selasa, 2025-09-23 19:56:14

September 2010 (UTC) Looks serviceable in terms of prose. Overlinking: MOSLINK says to avoid bunched linking; I wonder who wants a direct blue-link to...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of UEFA Cup winning managers
Rabu, 2024-07-17 21:31:43

necessarily a deal-breaker here (or the others), but I'm just going off WP:MOSLINK. Especially when all the citations lead to essentially similar pages. Drewcifer...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/October 2008
Senin, 2009-09-07 09:01:52

context, but I wanted to make sure the point was raised. See Wikipedia:MOSLINK#Quotation and Wikipedia talk:Only make links that are relevant to the context/Archive...

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Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll
Kamis, 2022-06-09 21:29:52

with a caveat that we add a small non-guidance statement to MOSNUM or MOSLINK stateing explicitly "Links to dates are not treated any differently than...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Munich air disaster/archive1
Minggu, 2023-03-26 18:46:10

problem with seeral of the same items being linked repeatedly. Per WP:MOSLINKS, they should only be linked once, unless they are introduced far apart...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Military history of Australia during World War II
Senin, 2009-01-26 20:26:49

Comment:Pass There's quite a number of piped links which as per Wikipedia:MOSLINK#Piped_links are "easter eggs" which require the user to follow the link...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Jürgen Ehlers/archive1
Sabtu, 2024-12-14 12:31:42

cohesion. It looks like there are a lot of repeated wikilinks. Check WP:MOSLINK, but in most cases, there really shouldn't be more than two links to a...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Failed log/September 2008
Senin, 2009-09-07 08:21:24

Avoid linking the names of anglophone countries and nationalities (see MOSLINK). Remove "native", since you've told us that already. Avoid "currently"...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/August 2008
Kamis, 2009-10-08 04:53:11

repeating the links where they are relatively distant (as advised by WP:MOSLINK). I'm also looking into increasing the linking to the divisons, as this...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Failed log/August 2008
Senin, 2008-09-01 04:10:50

Comments Try not to wikilink two words next to each other in the text, per WP:MOSLINK. It looks like Taiwanese girl group, which is confusing. Changed to "girl...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/September 2008
Minggu, 2010-01-10 00:37:56

FIXED!! Do we need a link for the common term "department stores"? See WP:MOSLINK. Unsure the link for "Spanish language" effort will help the reader; it's...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2020 May 7
Senin, 2020-05-11 07:08:37

wiki link to another wikipedia language. I've read WP:INTERWIKI and WP:MOSLINK and tried playing in my sandbox without joy. The diff of the user's question...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/Seattle, Washington/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 05:27:10

and we find trolleybuses linked twice within a few sentences. See WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT, common words need not be linked and only the first occurrence...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 26
Sabtu, 2023-04-15 23:15:34

that. Fosnez (talk) 09:42, 14 May 2008 (UTC) Let's look at the page WP:MOSLINK#Context. This is a guideline, it provides some rules. Now there is Help:Piped...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
Senin, 2023-02-20 06:14:53

context, but I wanted to make sure the point was raised. See Wikipedia:MOSLINK#Quotation and Wikipedia talk:Only make links that are relevant to the context/Archive...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/S Club/archive1
Senin, 2023-01-30 17:26:53

better. Done - ǀ Mikay ǀ 15:16, 19 January 2008 (UTC) Overlinking. WP:MOSLINK says that you should not link a term multiple times in the same article...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ryan White
Kamis, 2008-01-31 01:07:28

they are mentioned. For me this is overlinking and distracting, as per WP:MOSLINK. Lou.weird (talk) 14:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Oh geez, you're quite right...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/February 2010
Senin, 2010-03-01 01:09:13

first use is linked, and linked a few other sources. My reading of WP:MOSLINK gives no exception for reference sections, and only the first instance...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Slovenian presidential election, 2007/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-16 13:36:31

--Tone 07:44, 12 September 2008 (UTC) Comment: it needs a good copy-edit. MOSLINK discourages sequential links; can you relocate "France Cukjati", and please...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/M-35 (Michigan highway)
Minggu, 2023-04-09 01:00:01

19 May 2008 (UTC) It was requested at the A-Class Review to follow WP:MOSLINK and re-link in each section, lead, RD and history. Imzadi1979 (talk) 21:04...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2002 Atlantic hurricane season
Rabu, 2025-09-24 05:53:24

(UTC) Notes: hurricane seasons are piped to a year link; see Wikipedia:MOSLINK#Dates. Y'all are again leaving out full publication dates on citations...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Greater Manchester
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:40:41

my article, I'd clean them out and link only the first occurrence (see MOSLINK). Long piped strings such as "largest shopping centres in the United Kingdom"...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 125
Kamis, 2024-10-17 05:12:29

as a more concrete proposal in MoS talk. While it could be taken to WT:MOSLINK, or perhaps WT:MOSNUM which covers dates, you'll get more input at WT:MOS...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tenimyu
Jumat, 2026-01-09 13:15:02

should, in the majority, be based upon WP:SECONDARY sources. Please read WP:MOSLINKS#Link titles -- you should at the very least provide the title of the webpage...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yasser Arafat/archive2
Rabu, 2026-01-21 19:56:20

example: During the 1962–1966 period, ... There is some overlinking; see WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT. Common words known to most English-speaking people, like...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/History of Russia/archive1
Jumat, 2023-03-10 17:13:11

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC) Overlinked as well (see WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC) OK, perhaps...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 62
Kamis, 2026-03-05 06:38:06

merging in a different guideline. They were reverted A Wikipedia_talk:MOSLINK#Resurrect this guideline? discussion ensued, which showed that there was...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Florida Atlantic University/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-23 20:58:08

punctuation at the end, sentence fragments do not. I think this is  Done See WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT, words commonly know to most English speakers that don't...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Early life and military career of John McCain
Minggu, 2022-05-22 03:55:58

separate, so one of those can go. "English" should not be linked. See MOSLINK. "Boarding school"? We do speak English. Tons of repeated links (such as...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hip-hop dance/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:45:45

I got it right this time when it comes to the wikilinks. I went to WP:MOSLINK#Overlinking and underlinking and found out why this article had problems...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Herman Vandenburg Ames/archive1
Sabtu, 2018-08-25 07:05:49

clarity in separating quotes from comments ... maybe I should stop it!). MOSLINK discourages bunched links, and links to items every person on the planet...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Roger Waters/archive2
Jumat, 2023-03-24 14:57:38

The MoS guidline on linking leaves room for subjective opinion. Per WP:MOSLINKS, "links should be included where it is most likely that readers might want...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archimedes
Senin, 2026-06-15 04:35:01

linked. Please delink common words known to most English speakers per WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT; they make it harder to get through the text and dilute...

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment/Archive 43
Minggu, 2022-03-27 14:12:55

themselves have been stable. The occasional tension on MOS, MOSNUM and MOSLINK talk pages is not in a way that is damaging to the project. I will do more...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of S.H.E awards/archive1
Senin, 2022-04-18 09:15:02

Comments Try not to wikilink two words next to each other in the text, per WP:MOSLINK. It looks like Taiwanese girl group, which is confusing. Changed to "girl...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-16 13:52:30

- Talk 14:22, 19 July 2009 (UTC) Not happy yet. Examples from the top: MOSLINK recommends that major countries such as Canada/ian not be linked. Fixed...

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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Workshop
Minggu, 2026-01-18 18:38:20

WP:BTW and WP:MOSLINK, specifically the three threads at WP:AN/I, the one (or more) threads at WP:AN, the various new discussions at WT:MOSLINK and WT:BTW...

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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Evidence
Rabu, 2022-03-02 18:16:15

dozens and dozens of people who've turned up to comment, whether at MOSNUM, MOSLINK, Lightmouse's talk page, or wherever, because they're unhappy with what...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cleanbot
Kamis, 2023-02-09 17:26:39

about it, please raise the matter at the talk pages (MOSNUM, CONTEXT, MOSLINK, et al.). Tony (talk) 14:47, 22 October 2008 (UTC) How could it have support...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2016 December 14
Selasa, 2023-04-04 11:13:00

that I must not have any "idea what (I'm) doing"). I've looked through WP:MOSLINK and WP:NAMES, but I can't seem to find anything about including honorifics...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 917
Senin, 2026-06-08 14:27:03

link to Delhi to help users find out more information the city (see WP:MOSLINK for full details). Please let us know if this hasn't answered your question...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1059
Jumat, 2025-11-21 07:00:36

seems like it should be easy, but nope. I've read WP:INTERWIKI and WP:MOSLINK and tried playing in my sandbox without success. The user's question is...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ben Paschal/archive3
Rabu, 2025-09-24 02:25:57

few points to clear up. --Sarastro1 (talk) 09:29, 27 August 2010 (UTC) MOSLINK says to avoid bunched links: why are both baseball and outfielder adjacently...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/California State Route 76/archive1
Minggu, 2022-05-15 01:25:47

would be willing to adjust it. --Rschen7754 05:24, 5 October 2016 (UTC) MOSLINK discourages bunched linking, for good reason. And unfocused linking (why...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/John C. Calhoun/archive2
Sabtu, 2018-09-15 06:20:51

Carolina|Abbeville]], [[South Carolina]], [[United States|U.S.]] - that's several MOSLINK issues in a single line. Your citation formatting in particular is all...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ununseptium/archive1
Minggu, 2026-02-08 19:00:04

lead and first section. Sasata (talk) 18:23, 2 December 2012 (UTC) WP:MOSLINK says "When possible, avoid placing links next to each other so that they...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham
Senin, 2017-11-13 11:30:39

from he body, but considering the size of the article, I thought per WP:MOSLINK, keeping "the first occurrence after the lead"? Yes that is right. Anotherclown...

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Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Date Linking RFC
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 08:44:24

vast oceans of irrelevant details. It's self-defeating to use them. WP:MOSLINK already says not to use them. Tony (talk) 09:27, 25 November 2008 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Noël Coward
Senin, 2025-03-17 20:12:25

doesn't know what "singer" means. Or "actor". Why are they linked? See MOSLINK. I've removed them, with one query—you piped "Theatre director" to "director";...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Boys from Baghdad High/archive1
Selasa, 2025-09-23 23:13:57

top of the first, which looks like a crummy article. And they breach MOSLINK's advice about bunching. "Sheffield Doc/Fest" is the high-value link here—it's...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Raid at Cabanatuan/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 04:33:19

to each other? The latter contains a very prominent link to the former. MOSLINK says to be specific. (Same for the NE and Ph in the infobox: readers need...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Washington v. Texas/archive1
Senin, 2025-12-01 09:24:31

law is used multiple times in the article before it is linked. See WP:MOSLINK and WP:OVERLINK-- link on first occurrence. Please review throughout. Inconsistent...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Runcorn/archive2
Rabu, 2022-03-23 19:23:35

glancing at the lead only, I see overlinking. Please review WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSLINK. Most English-speaking readers know what soap is and it need not be linked;...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Peer review/Major League Baseball (video game)
Jumat, 2007-09-14 04:58:02

such as "hell" and "crowd" which shouldn't be there. Take a look at WP:MOSLINKS then go through and amend the article as required.  Done Cheers, CP 02:39...

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Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Archive 34
Sabtu, 2023-12-16 11:32:53

  Changing the world one edit at a time! 12:09, 14 January 2011 (UTC) Per WP:MOSLINK, please don't link 'world'. ;) Kayau Voting IS evil 12:35, 14 January 2011...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2012 February 11
Kamis, 2023-02-09 03:35:08

(talk) 22:52, 11 February 2012 (UTC) The Manual of Style guideline is at WP:MOSLINK#Overlinking and underlinking. If you find an overlinked article, you could...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/September 11, 2001 attacks/archive3
Minggu, 2022-05-22 03:44:13

when you hit it. Why is "civilians" linked? Please see WP:CONTEXT and MOSLINK. Audit the whole article to weed out trivial links: let your high-value...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2012 September 11
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 00:49:33

September 2012 (UTC) Hi, try reading the information on this page, Wikipedia:MOSLINK, this covers all the aspects of what should and should not be linked, and...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/India House/archive1
Minggu, 2022-05-22 03:52:06

these cases. Talking of clutter, there's a lot of unnecessary linking. MOSLINK and CONTEXT say drop the linking of well-known geographical names, such...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-23 20:20:36

(like Spain, United States and English) linked (see WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSLINK)? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC) Comment — Done. (Ibaranoff24...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/School for Creative and Performing Arts/archive1
Rabu, 2025-09-24 01:35:51

tonight, the linking issue might give you something to work on. See WP:MOSLINK for guidance, and WP:RED. There has been a focus lately at FAC on WP:OVERLINKing...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 January 31
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:19:19

notable topic for a list here. Wikipedia is also about linking. See WP:MOSLINK. Both lists and categories support the connection of areas of knowledge...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Thrud the Barbarian/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 05:01:30

I'm not crazy about that, although I can't find anything about it in WP:MOSLINK. You hyphenated "full-length" in the prose but not in the heading. When...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Haumea (dwarf planet)
Selasa, 2025-09-23 23:18:47

approximately a third. kwami (talk) 21:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC) Please note that MOSLINK says not to link common geographical terms such as "United States". "Haumea...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Perovskia atriplicifolia/archive2
Jumat, 2023-02-10 04:28:11

most readers in context" or insufficiently specific to the topic (per WP:MOSLINK). Retained links to species description and range (biology) (the latter...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 January 18
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:20:21

should, in the majority, be based upon WP:SECONDARY sources. Please read WP:MOSLINKS#Link titles -- you should at the very least provide the title of the webpage...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/Belgium/archive3
Rabu, 2022-03-23 19:58:43

enough info for the interest of a general reader of the enyclopaedia. WP:MOSLINKS problems. I tried to clean it up by removing general wikilinks, but there...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Charles Carroll the Settler/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:14:40

the prose looks generally OK. Why are "France" and "England" linked? See MOSLINK. the only Catholic signatory to, not signer of, I think. "he had moved...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Radcliffe, Greater Manchester
Rabu, 2025-09-24 02:16:56

12:29, 19 February 2009 (UTC) I think "BC" should not be wikilinked per WP:MOSLINK, although it's not really a unit of measure. However, it is very common...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/S&M (song)/archive6
Selasa, 2025-09-09 16:53:25

but is there a way to do it outside the quote so it lines up with WP:MOSLINK? Not really. Aaron • You Da One I'm not sure you represent the Daily News...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Empire of Brazil/archive1
Selasa, 2024-12-31 03:03:52

" So its ethnic diversity is somehow unexpected in a huge country? WP:MOSLINK says to try to make links as focused as possible. You might consider, piping...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Featured article candidates/2008
Selasa, 2008-07-22 17:54:20

why DVD should be linked at all is beyond me, but twice in a sentence? MOSLINK says avoid the linking of the names of familiar countries, esp. anglopohone...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/FairTax/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-23 20:03:31

(Talk) 01:05, 13 August 2007 (UTC) Comments. Seriously overlinked (see WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT), needs WP:MSH attention to repeat words in section headings...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/Spoo/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 05:27:47

hyphens throughout. Common words (like cookbook) should be delinked per WP:MOSLINK, WP:CONTEXT. Quotes are incorrectly italicized, see WP:ITALICS. SandyGeorgia...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Batman (1989 film)/archive1
Senin, 2024-11-25 23:57:46

- terms should generally be linked once or twice in an article (see WP:MOSLINKS). In the "Production" section, for example, people's names and movie titles...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-02-23/SPV
Sabtu, 2024-01-06 08:02:40

the current guideline on that subject, which is this page [MOSLINK] Rename this page [MOSLINK to] Wikipedia:Linking The actions have been met with general...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of the National Hockey League (1917–1942)
Selasa, 2024-12-31 03:07:27

like the one in the lead for the Toronto Arenas. Please see Wikipedia:MOSLINK#Intuitiveness. "... by 1926 consisted of ten teams in Ontario, Quebec and...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cloud Gate/archive1
Sabtu, 2022-12-10 12:09:58

14:50, 24 August 2008 (UTC) Linking of "sculpture": breach of WP:MOSLINK—"In general, do not create links to the following:.. Plain English words"...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Christopher Smart's asylum confinement/archive2
Rabu, 2025-09-24 04:17:14

matter of counting links or density. Please see WP:OVERLINKing and WP:MOSLINK. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:22, 8 September 2009 (UTC) Well, if I ever finish...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Plymouth Colony
Selasa, 2024-12-31 09:36:55

links in any articles? Or maybe you could find the passage in WP:MOS or WP:MOSLINKS where it says that as well? The article contains maybe 3-4 redlinks. I...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cloud Gate/archive3
Rabu, 2022-03-23 16:34:35

do we know that? Gone. --TorsodogTalk 02:17, 12 November 2008 (UTC) WP:MOSLINK#Overlinking and underlinking - Obvious words such as "architect" and "skyscraper"...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of rugby union matches between All Blacks and France/archive2
Sabtu, 2022-12-10 12:20:35

removed the autoformatting, which is no longer encouraged by MOSNUM. Also, MOSLINK says don't bother with links to London and such well-known geographical...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of common misconceptions (3rd nomination)
Rabu, 2026-01-07 21:31:05

notable topic for a list here. Wikipedia is also about linking. See WP:MOSLINK. Both lists and categories support the connection of areas of knowledge...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sunderland A.F.C./archive1
Kamis, 2026-02-19 11:53:01

not pipe the whole group? Be explicit, where it's reasonably brief. See MOSLINK. I think there's a case for the 1973 FA Cup link to be in the "See also"...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MOSNUM Bot
Jumat, 2023-03-03 02:01:02

that has a "no refs" notice at the top. My long-winded point is that WP:MOSLINK insists that links should be focused, where possible, for reader utility...

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Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll/Year-linking responses
Kamis, 2024-05-09 22:26:09

2009 (UTC) Support perhaps with a caveat, maybe a statement in MOSNUM or MOSLINK that states explicitly "dates are not treated any differently than any...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Domitian
Rabu, 2022-03-23 18:18:14

Why are solo years and centuries linked throughout (see WP:MOSDATE, WP:MOSLINK and WP:OVERLINK). Why are common places known to everyone, like Greece...

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Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard/Archive 18
Kamis, 2023-02-09 16:34:13

assessment of the page is on point. Review WP:EL#External links section, WP:MOSLINK#External links section, and lastly, the policy WP:LINKFARM. --Izno (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Euclidean algorithm/archive1
Jumat, 2022-05-20 16:10:02

people. Also, "efficient method" is currently linked to Sturm chain. WP:MOSLINK advises that the article being linked to should be made clear by the words...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Orval Grove
Rabu, 2025-09-24 22:10:05

instead, where it's a proper service to readers, not a guessing game (see MOSLINK). Please see my comments below in Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Sunderland_A...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Wicked (musical)/archive1
Jumat, 2024-12-20 03:21:26

commonly known to most English speakers do not need to be linked. See WP:MOSLINK. There are unformatted incomplete references, example: 'Wicked' Shatters...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 186
Kamis, 2023-02-09 03:46:14

rules the same for all, right? More specifically, would something like WP:MOSLINK also apply to all non-English language Wikipedias? Thanks in advance -...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cillian Murphy/archive1
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 20:46:57

most English speakers, for example hero; pls review throughout per WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT. (I'll be traveling until next Tuesday, so won't be able...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chris Young (pitcher)/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:15:53

hyphen heavy, tedious cleanup work is needed. Also, per WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSLINK, I don't see justification for all of the baseball year links to solo years...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Major depressive disorder/restart
Jumat, 2024-12-13 22:58:13

print-out. This is similar to what is described as "easter egg" links at WP:MOSLINK. How about something like "This includes a record of the person's circumstances...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive/August 2007
Rabu, 2017-02-15 02:41:26

(Talk) 01:05, 13 August 2007 (UTC) Comments. Seriously overlinked (see WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT), needs WP:MSH attention to repeat words in section headings...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/February 2011
Rabu, 2011-03-02 11:39:50

" So its ethnic diversity is somehow unexpected in a huge country? WP:MOSLINK says to try to make links as focused as possible. You might consider, piping...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/September 2007
Selasa, 2020-10-06 21:23:52

emdash rather than endash, and See also contains spaced emdashes. See WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT; common words known to most English speakers need not be...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2009-02-23
Selasa, 2023-11-07 10:32:54

the current guideline on that subject, which is this page [MOSLINK] Rename this page [MOSLINK to] Wikipedia:Linking The actions have been met with general...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Roger Waters/archive1
Sabtu, 2025-10-18 11:31:02

in a couple of days.—indopug (talk) 06:46, 22 October 2010 (UTC) Per WP:MOSLINKS, "links should be included where it is most likely that readers might want...

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Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll/Month-day responses
Selasa, 2026-03-10 01:02:52

with a caveat that we add a small non-guidance statement to MOSNUM or MOSLINK stateing explicitly "Links to dates are not treated any differently than...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hillary Rodham Clinton/archive1
Jumat, 2024-12-20 03:20:50

article is overlinked to the point of impeding readability; pls see WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT. Words commonly known to most English-speaking readers need...

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Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests/Archive 96
Selasa, 2023-02-21 23:14:06

Discussion page, helpfully pointing me to the appropiate WP:MOSLINK point. Checking WP:MOSLINK, I found another point that to me seemed to allow successive...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/January 2008
Senin, 2010-09-27 07:32:11

they are mentioned. For me this is overlinking and distracting, as per WP:MOSLINK. Lou.weird (talk) 14:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Oh geez, you're quite right...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sri Lankan Tamil people/archive1
Jumat, 2025-11-21 18:39:29

and its effects"—remove the last three words ("relating to" does it). MOSLINK says not to link the names of such countries as "Britain". "deathS". "ALthough"...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/A-Class review/M-35 (Michigan highway)
Rabu, 2025-09-24 03:14:18

numbered list rant. Clearly if Holderca1's comment is backed up my WP:MOSLINK, then those weren't "tons of redundant links". I'm pretty sure that here...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2018/01
Senin, 2025-09-01 07:03:06

Onel5969 TT me 11:50, 28 January 2018 (UTC) I’ve fixed numerous links per WP:MOSLINK, and I believe it should remain a disambiguation page as there are numerous...

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Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/February 2011
Senin, 2026-02-09 16:42:09

guess); and so often, they judder against another, more pertinent link (WP:MOSLINK says to try to avoid this, although I think it's not mandatory). Can I...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2013/03
Minggu, 2025-01-26 05:04:23

reverting a cosmetic change legitimate under nothing more dramatic than WP:MOSLINK, in order to balance the tone away from defining hebephilia as what it...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/August 2007
Jumat, 2020-10-16 03:50:16

of China infobox on the right and images on the left. Also, refer to WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT, common terms known to most English speakers need not be...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/August 2008
Senin, 2008-09-01 03:31:51

from the text) would make a difference. Overlinking: please note that MOSLINK says not to link the names of commonly known countries (i.e., nationalities...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/September 2009
Kamis, 2009-10-01 01:24:46

matter of counting links or density. Please see WP:OVERLINKing and WP:MOSLINK. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:22, 8 September 2009 (UTC) Well, if I ever finish...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of ISS spacewalks
Minggu, 2026-02-22 06:55:13

much of a linking expert actually, ask User:Tony1 or put a question on WT:MOSLINK. This linking issue is not a deal-breaker, I'm still willing to support...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/May 2009
Minggu, 2009-05-31 04:31:39

people. Also, "efficient method" is currently linked to Sturm chain. WP:MOSLINK advises that the article being linked to should be made clear by the words...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/November 2010
Sabtu, 2010-11-27 06:42:05

article anyway. Better to focus the reader on a single patch of blue. See MOSLINK on bunched links. Removed links Jujutacular talk 04:21, 30 October 2010...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/August 2010
Selasa, 2010-08-31 22:14:33

few points to clear up. --Sarastro1 (talk) 09:29, 27 August 2010 (UTC) MOSLINK says to avoid bunched links: why are both baseball and outfielder adjacently...

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Wikipedia:Update/2/General style guidelines, July 2008 to December 2008
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 08:16:47

links and identify related articles. Many changes to WP:MOSLINK#Red links Added to WP:MOSLINK#Capitalization: "(But capitalization does matter for all...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/January 2009
Minggu, 2009-02-01 03:48:05

instead, where it's a proper service to readers, not a guessing game (see MOSLINK). Please see my comments below in Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Sunderland_A...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2007
Minggu, 2020-10-04 02:42:35

linked. Please delink common words known to most English speakers per WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT; they make it harder to get through the text and dilute...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2012
Senin, 2020-12-07 01:43:59

bit troublesome. Burroughs is first mentioned in a quote, and since WP:MOSLINK says that "items within quotations should not generally be linked" the...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2008
Sabtu, 2008-11-01 04:11:34

approximately a third. kwami (talk) 21:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC) Please note that MOSLINK says not to link common geographical terms such as "United States". "Haumea...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/September 2010
Minggu, 2018-02-25 02:10:14

tonight, the linking issue might give you something to work on. See WP:MOSLINK for guidance, and WP:RED. There has been a focus lately at FAC on WP:OVERLINKing...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/December 2010
Jumat, 2010-12-31 05:39:05

The MoS guidline on linking leaves room for subjective opinion. Per WP:MOSLINKS, "links should be included where it is most likely that readers might want...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/June 2008
Kamis, 2016-03-17 15:39:11

two links "next to each other in the text" are prohibited by WP:MOSLINK. No, MOSLINK says "An article may be overlinked if any of the following is true...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/July 2008
Kamis, 2016-03-17 15:54:44

like the one in the lead for the Toronto Arenas. Please see Wikipedia:MOSLINK#Intuitiveness. "... by 1926 consisted of ten teams in Ontario, Quebec and...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/January 2009
Minggu, 2009-02-01 00:29:19

not pipe the whole group? Be explicit, where it's reasonably brief. See MOSLINK. I think there's a case for the 1973 FA Cup link to be in the "See also"...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/May 2008
Jumat, 2008-05-30 10:35:31

19 May 2008 (UTC) It was requested at the A-Class Review to follow WP:MOSLINK and re-link in each section, lead, RD and history. Imzadi1979 (talk) 21:04...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/January 2013
Jumat, 2013-02-01 21:47:18

law is used multiple times in the article before it is linked. See WP:MOSLINK and WP:OVERLINK-- link on first occurrence. Please review throughout. Inconsistent...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/July 2009
Rabu, 2009-07-29 04:48:02

the prose looks generally OK. Why are "France" and "England" linked? See MOSLINK. the only Catholic signatory to, not signer of, I think. "he had moved...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/March 2008
Sabtu, 2020-05-23 23:05:36

I'm not crazy about that, although I can't find anything about it in WP:MOSLINK. You hyphenated "full-length" in the prose but not in the heading. When...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/November 2008
Minggu, 2008-11-30 06:43:43

repeat throughout the article - these are generally unnecessary. See WP:MOSLINK for advice on linking. Ox cart is sometimes spelled "oxcart" and sometimes...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/September 2008
Selasa, 2008-09-30 08:20:48

(UTC) Notes: hurricane seasons are piped to a year link; see Wikipedia:MOSLINK#Dates. Y'all are again leaving out full publication dates on citations...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/January 2008
Rabu, 2010-12-01 13:00:28

not likely to be misunderstood (like "seconds") are also linked. See WP:MOSLINK for more details. The article is sketchy on its referencing. The first...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/August 2018
Kamis, 2018-08-30 04:20:00

clarity in separating quotes from comments ... maybe I should stop it!). MOSLINK discourages bunched links, and links to items every person on the planet...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/November 2016
Jumat, 2016-12-02 21:36:11

would be willing to adjust it. --Rschen7754 05:24, 5 October 2016 (UTC) MOSLINK discourages bunched linking, for good reason. And unfocused linking (why...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/March 2017
Sabtu, 2017-04-01 05:39:56

Carolina|Abbeville]], [[South Carolina]], [[United States|U.S.]] - that's several MOSLINK issues in a single line. Your citation formatting in particular is all...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/February 2012
Kamis, 2012-03-01 05:02:00

bit of WP:OVERLINKing in the article. See my sample edits, and see WP:MOSLINK. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:02, 7 February 2012 (UTC) Are there sources which...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/August 2009
Senin, 2009-08-31 05:43:41

- Talk 14:22, 19 July 2009 (UTC) Not happy yet. Examples from the top: MOSLINK recommends that major countries such as Canada/ian not be linked. Fixed...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/March 2009
Selasa, 2009-03-31 22:55:00

doesn't know what "singer" means. Or "actor". Why are they linked? See MOSLINK. I've removed them, with one query—you piped "Theatre director" to "director";...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/February 2009
Minggu, 2009-03-01 06:35:29

12:29, 19 February 2009 (UTC) I think "BC" should not be wikilinked per WP:MOSLINK, although it's not really a unit of measure. However, it is very common...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/September 2007
Minggu, 2020-10-11 17:57:20

hyphen heavy, tedious cleanup work is needed. Also, per WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSLINK, I don't see justification for all of the baseball year links to solo years...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive/September 2007
Jumat, 2017-02-10 04:54:18

(like Spain, United States and English) linked (see WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSLINK)? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC) Comment — Done. (Ibaranoff24...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/July 2008
Kamis, 2008-07-31 08:53:11

these cases. Talking of clutter, there's a lot of unnecessary linking. MOSLINK and CONTEXT say drop the linking of well-known geographical names, such...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Mayor of Jersey City/archive1
Minggu, 2023-02-19 09:29:56

first use is linked, and linked a few other sources. My reading of WP:MOSLINK gives no exception for reference sections, and only the first instance...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/October 2007
Minggu, 2007-10-28 01:32:27

example: During the 1962–1966 period, ... There is some overlinking; see WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT. Common words known to most English-speaking people, like...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/January 2008
Jumat, 2009-04-24 04:13:47

commonly known to most English speakers do not need to be linked. See WP:MOSLINK. There are unformatted incomplete references, example: 'Wicked' Shatters...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/July 2007
Kamis, 2008-06-05 05:21:29

terms like Germany, Scotland, malnourishment and Swiss per WP:CONTEXT, WP:MOSLINK. Fixed, or at least significantly improved, according to my best judgment...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2015
Sabtu, 2015-10-31 13:29:57

most readers in context" or insufficiently specific to the topic (per WP:MOSLINK). Retained links to species description and range (biology) (the latter...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/October 2007
Minggu, 2020-11-22 01:32:04

punctuation at the end, sentence fragments do not. I think this is  Done See WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT, words commonly know to most English speakers that don't...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/August 2007
Rabu, 2023-11-15 19:02:55

thoughts about this? Gmatsuda 08:56, 5 August 2007 (UTC) Please see WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT regarding overlinking of common terms in the article; I...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive/January 2008
Jumat, 2008-02-01 16:33:36

(UTC) And under-referenced—1c. I have a question, Tony. Looking at the WP:MOSLINKS standard, there may be some low added-value links in the article like some...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review/2008
Rabu, 2011-09-07 02:59:56

numbered list rant. Clearly if Holderca1's comment is backed up my WP:MOSLINK, then those weren't "tons of redundant links". I'm pretty sure that here...

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Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 January 10
Kamis, 2025-01-30 12:43:39

Thanks, CycloneYoris talk! 08:10, 10 January 2025 (UTC) Keep. It's up to WT:MOSLINK whether the MoS should mention "wingsuit combat" and whether this should...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/November 2007
Minggu, 2014-12-14 18:23:18

first few sections; the remainder should be reviewed.[6] Have a look at WP:MOSLINK for guidance. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:54, 19 November 2007 (UTC) The lead...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/November 2008
Minggu, 2008-11-30 07:36:13

do we know that? Gone. --TorsodogTalk 02:17, 12 November 2008 (UTC) WP:MOSLINK#Overlinking and underlinking - Obvious words such as "architect" and "skyscraper"...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive/April 2008
Jumat, 2017-02-17 05:00:33

which is it, and isn't there a link? (Note, review all wikilinking per WP:MOSLINK and WP:OVERLINK). Why does this need seven citations? and regularly trades...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/January 2011
Minggu, 2018-12-30 20:26:55

county, state, country bunches the links in a way that is discouraged by WP:MOSLINK. Why not focus the blue link-indicator on the most specific, from which...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/January 2009
Sabtu, 2019-07-20 04:41:57

problem with seeral of the same items being linked repeatedly. Per WP:MOSLINKS, they should only be linked once, unless they are introduced far apart...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive/November 2007
Sabtu, 2007-12-01 14:44:07

and we find trolleybuses linked twice within a few sentences. See WP:MOSLINK and WP:CONTEXT, common words need not be linked and only the first occurrence...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/September 2008
Rabu, 2008-10-01 05:46:07

--Tone 07:44, 12 September 2008 (UTC) Comment: it needs a good copy-edit. MOSLINK discourages sequential links; can you relocate "France Cukjati", and please...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/July 2011
Kamis, 2011-07-28 02:03:03

Fixed - I have unblued a lot of repeated links. I have, however, per WP:MOSLINK, retained repeated links in (a) infoboxes and picture captions, (b) occurrences...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/December 2011
Kamis, 2011-12-29 02:31:35

I got it right this time when it comes to the wikilinks. I went to WP:MOSLINK#Overlinking and underlinking and found out why this article had problems...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive/December 2007
Kamis, 2008-01-03 02:01:42

Arvind (talk) 09:51, 14 December 2007 (UTC) Lots of WP:OVERLINKing, see WP:MOSLINK and also lots ofWP:MOSDATE linking issues, full dates should be linked...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/August 2008
Senin, 2008-09-01 04:05:23

and its effects"—remove the last three words ("relating to" does it). MOSLINK says not to link the names of such countries as "Britain". "deathS". "ALthough"...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/December 2012
Senin, 2012-12-31 11:31:22

lead and first section. Sasata (talk) 18:23, 2 December 2012 (UTC) WP:MOSLINK says "When possible, avoid placing links next to each other so that they...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/October 2008
Sabtu, 2008-11-01 04:24:15

- terms should generally be linked once or twice in an article (see WP:MOSLINKS). In the "Production" section, for example, people's names and movie titles...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/March 2012
Kamis, 2012-04-05 11:00:40

but is there a way to do it outside the quote so it lines up with WP:MOSLINK? Not really. Aaron • You Da One I'm not sure you represent the Daily News...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/May 2011
Senin, 2011-05-30 22:40:19

the FAC process; and I'm sorry to be rude ... don't take it personally.] MOSLINK says try not to bunch up links, and link to the most specific item: why...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/October 2009
Minggu, 2009-11-01 06:22:21

(UTC) Both over and underlinking need review. See WP:OVERLINKing and WP:MOSLINK. Baseball jargon should all be linked or defined on first occurrence, common...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/November 2010
Selasa, 2010-11-30 07:40:24

in a couple of days.—indopug (talk) 06:46, 22 October 2010 (UTC) Per WP:MOSLINKS, "links should be included where it is most likely that readers might want...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/November 2012
Selasa, 2013-01-01 05:44:42

cohesion. It looks like there are a lot of repeated wikilinks. Check WP:MOSLINK, but in most cases, there really shouldn't be more than two links to a...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2017/Failed
Minggu, 2017-12-24 02:30:11

from he body, but considering the size of the article, I thought per WP:MOSLINK, keeping "the first occurrence after the lead"? Yes that is right. Anotherclown...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2009/Promoted
Minggu, 2024-09-29 15:29:18

Comment:Pass There's quite a number of piped links which as per Wikipedia:MOSLINK#Piped_links are "easter eggs" which require the user to follow the link...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/December 2012
Sabtu, 2013-02-02 07:17:17

think that applies here. Colin°Talk 20:15, 19 November 2012 (UTC) See WP:MOSLINK and WP:OVERLINK-- there is still some overlinking (aspirin, for example)...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/November 2011
Minggu, 2012-01-01 03:59:21

AJona1992 WP:DAB: found one Lead 01. 1965 doesn't need to be wikiliked per WP:MOSLINK 02. "Target" shouldn't be capitalize per WP:MOSCAPS History 01. This section...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2017/Promoted
Senin, 2019-07-08 06:58:29

from he body, but considering the size of the article, I thought per WP:MOSLINK, keeping "the first occurrence after the lead"? Yes that is right. Anotherclown...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1220
Jumat, 2026-04-24 19:00:51

a content dispute that might be resolved by starting an RfC over at WT:MOSLINKS. I don't see why it had to escalate to ANI, there seems to be some disagreement...

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Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 265
Jumat, 2026-02-20 10:48:55

citing MOS:OVERLINK, while I disagree, citing WP:IGNORE and arguments in WT:MOSLINKS#OVERLINK vs GEOLINK. How have you tried to resolve this dispute before...

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