User talk:Id447
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[edit] Categories are not "see also" links
Hi - Looking at your edit to Global warming conspiracy theory, which was reverted by another user, I think you have misunderstood the purpose of the Category: links on Wikipedia. They should not be used indiscriminately on an article to link to related categories. They should only be used when the article actually fits in the category. (If you think it would be useful to link to related categories which are neither subcategories nor parent categories, you can do that on a category page.)—greenrd 16:12, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Imperial Presidency
A couple of notes for you:
- Do not wikify surnames in isolation, such as "Nixon" or "Lincoln" — these almost invariably lead to disambiguation pages rather than articles about the presidents. Wikify either the whole name (Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, etc.) or nothing.
- Do not wikify general terms such as "Congress", "Constitution", "Civil War", "Senate", etc. — again, these are dab pages, not articles about the American topics. Wikify the whole term (United States Congress, Constitution of the United States, American Civil War, United States Senate, etc.) or nothing.
- Don't wikify every appearance of a term in an article; wikify the first one only. If you choose, you can wikify the term again later in the article, if the article is exceedingly long, but at the very least don't wikify the same term twice in a single subsection.
Thanks. Bearcat 21:43, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
