User talk:Corsairejaun
According to the Wikipedia manual of style on links, there is seldom a need to link multiple times to the same article, let alone within a single section. Only having one link to an article helps reduce the effort required to update links.
-- Faulkston 02:43, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
YPPedia articles outside of user name space do not belong to one editor. Below the article editing box is the following text:
- Please note that all contributions to YPPedia are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Licence (see YPPedia:Copyrights for details). If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then don't submit it here.
-- Faulkston 17:54, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Ahoy ! Faulkston was not editing the page to be mean, but rather to ensure that pages in YYPedia have a common style. In particular more then one link in an article to the same page is usually not desireable, some reasons are: It is not needed, since any user wanting to know more about the linked subject would probably have used the first link. It creates more work, if the link to a target changes and the links have to be updated - because of a rename or the need to disambiguate (more than one crew/flag/anything with the same name around). Too many links near each other tend to confuse more than help in finding the one link one is actually interested in.
That said, you can have pages in the style you like in your private name space (for example User:Corsairejaun/somepage) and nobody will change those, but articles in the main namespace do not belong to one editor alone and others will come along and make changes they deem will improve an article. In particular Faulkston made changes that constitute a consensus in the wikipedia community and were written down in the manual he linked to.
Fair winds ! --Alfwyn 13:47, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
If you have a disagreement with the edits being performed to a particular article, please politely discuss any issues on the article's corresponding talk page. -- Faulkston 04:32, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
