Akshatrathi

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Double brackets are for internal wikilinks only

I had to fix your edits to Paragordius tricuspidatus, Extreme weather, Jeremy Bentham, and Richard Posner because you keep attempting to wikilink your citations. Those double brackets only work as links to wiki articles; they do not link to external sources, especially if you don't provide the URL. You end up with red links that lead to nowhere, like so:

1. ^ The parasite a cricket’s nightmares are made of, The Conversation, 05 November 2013

Other editors have deleted your links thinking they are fake sources (as in the case of your edit to Time travel), or false references (as with your edits to Linguistics). It's best to just paste the bare URL inside <ref> tags and use Reflinks to format it afterwards.

—Samatict (talk) 08:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)