Badlucksuks

Constitution of India

The original constitution of India, as adopted on independence, did not appoint any language as official. However, the 2007 constitution specifies English and Hindi as official languages, with English to be phased out. JBW (talk) 10:02, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Adding links to articles

I see that some of your edits have added links from one article to another, known as "wikilinks". Wikilinks can be very helpful, but it is a very common mistake among new editors to add too many wikilinks to articles. Generally speaking, a wikilink should be added only if it provides information which is likely to help readers of the article in which the link is placed to understand content of that article, or provide further information closely connected to content of that article. Linking to articles in other situations is not just unnecessary, it can actually be harmful, because research has established that the more irrelevant, or only slightly relevant, links there are in a page, the less likely readers are to find the ones which they might find useful. Thus, for example, nobody reading the article The Odyssey (Smith) is likely to need to consult the articles sound, wheel, or horse in order to understand what those words mean in order to understand content of the article The Odyssey (Smith) nor do those articles contain any information about Smith's "Odyssey", so linking those terms is not likely to be helpful. JBW (talk) 10:15, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

sure thing, I will be more careful Badlucksuks (talk) 15:23, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

A couple of people have now given me answers to the question below, so I now understand what was happening, and I don't need any more explanation. JBW (talk) 12:07, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Since I posted the message above, I have see that a number of relatively inexperienced editors have recently been adding links to the article The Odyssey (Smith) in many cases, though not all, unsuitable links. There is nothing unusual about new or fairly inexperienced editors overlinking: as I said above, it is a very common mistake. However, for so many inexperienced editors to all come along to the same article and all start making very similar edits is most unusual; in fact I don't believe I have ever seen it before. There must be a connection; maybe someone has been organising some sort of group editing and has encouraged editors to add links to that article, or something of the kind. Are you able to give me any information which may clarify for me what is happening? JBW (talk) 22:43, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

• Since you posted to my talk page about this, even though you then removed your post, here are a few words about what I now realise happened. The problem with new editors adding too many links is largely caused by a well-intentioned but, in my opinion, badly implemented "suggested edit" feature, which encourages new editors to add new links without giving them the necessary guidance so that they understand how to do it. What was new this time was that for some reason the system kept directing new editors all to the one article, The Odyssey (Smith). I have never before known that to happen, so I thought there must be some connection among the various people who were doing it. It's really not a big deal; I wondered what was happening, but now I know. Thanks for the work you've been doing for Wikipedia, and I hope you will do much more over time. JBW (talk) 17:37, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

  you're welcome Badlucksuks (talk) 07:05, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

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