Jonathan RA Maier

Linking

Jonathan, thank you for your contributions to Wikipeida. Your recent edit to Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson here violated the Wikipedia policy on linking, and undid the clean up that I had performed on the article. You have made a number of other good edits, so I don't want to revert your edit en masse, so I'm going to ask you to undo the excessive linking that you have done on the article.

• The Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles says: "When you do create links, link only one or a few instances of the same term; don't link all instances of it."
• Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes warns against "Over-Wikifying": "Wikipedia thrives on internal links, but keep it within reason."
• Also, links should be made only where they are relevant to the article, and not to every word. See Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context.

WP:OVERLINK specifically says:

"Unless they are particularly relevant to the topic of the article, it is generally inappropriate to link:

• plain English words;
• terms whose meaning would be understood by almost all readers;
• items that would be familiar to most readers, such as the names of major geographic features and locations, religions, languages, common professions and common units of measurement (particularly if a conversion is provided);
• dates."

Thank you in advance for cleaning the article up to reflect this policy. Ground Zero | t 17:08, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

De-linking performed

I have gone through the article on Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson and removed what I think were all the excessive links. Thanks for pointing out the policy on that! I have left in the currently dead links to several historical figures and few other things that I intend to create pages for in the coming days... these include Nathan and Ester Frame, Culberson, North Carolina, the Theocratic Party, etc. Jonathan RA Maier (talk) 08:15, 15 June 2012 (UTC)Jonathan RA Maier

In response to your feedback

Yeah. You can always edit an article to improve it. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• Introduction
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• How to write a great article

Thanks for your feedback!

Salma Vian (talk) 20:47, 19 June 2012 (UTC)