Talk:Daniel Harrwitz

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[edit] Linking "German"

Its my understanding that the linking convention for articles is to link to other articles of particular relevance, and not simply because a word has a wikipedian article. In the opening statement, if both "German" and "chess master" are both linked, the eye tends to see just one long link, it looks like "German chess master" and that is misleading, as there is no such article, and clicking on "German" takes you to general entry on Germany. So, perhaps its best to link "chess master" only, as its not obvious that such an article exists, and its relevant to understanding what Harrwitz was in his life. On the other hand, if the reader wants to know about Germany in general, they can simply type "Germany" into the search box. Linking "German" is over-linking in this type of article, in my opinion. ChessPlayer 03:00, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It's really a matter of taste, and there are certainly plenty of people who would agree with you that such links are unnecessary and even undesireable, but most biographical articles in the Wikipedia do nevertheless link to countries in this way. If you wanted to take the link out, then you could do so, but I'd expect somebody to put it back in eventually. Personally, I think such links do little harm. I wouldn't worry about it too much, really - such things don't make a lot of difference one way or the other. The content of the article is more important. --Camembert

If you turn on link underlining in the Preferences, you'll find that the eye does not run together German chess master as one link. I favor linking both. -- Mareklug ^talk 06:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)