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Bad Editing Habits : Pages lacking crosslinking
This is an article that explains often recurring issues with pages on the wiki that lack crosslinking.
Starting point info
Crosslinking is simply linking the various pages on the wiki together in a manner that makes navigation throughout the wiki easy. Obviously, like any other wiki (or website, for that matter) on the Internet, the AH.com Wiki needs crosslinking to be an efficient community project.
Explanation of the issue
Though this isn't the biggest potential issue most newcomers to the wiki might face, it's still something worth looking at. Effectivelly used linking between different articles on a wiki is its lifeblood, Having a good grasp on which linking is necessary and which is more optional can make finding things on the wiki much easier and much more efficient.
Especially in the AH.com Wiki's early days, some AH.commers contributing to the wiki had a bad habit of starting new articles rather willy-nilly, without including even the most basic of links for elementary wiki usage (such as navigating it without the use of the search function, etc.). To date, it isn't completely surprising when occassional orphaned articles from that early era still pop up every now and then, rediscovered. Many of them with little content and with no links to other articles. To avoid all the bother with orphaned articles that lack crosslinking, we're going to talk a bit about how to tackle linking in the following two sections.
What is and isn't recommended in crosslinking
TBA.
Useful tips for effective but non-excessive linking
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See Also
Stop spamming the Wiki Landshark! - A somewhat funnier older thread, where the outrage in the title is more amicable than serious. Landshark was criticised here (years ago, during the wiki's infancy) for creating too many unfinished subpages, too many red links on pages, and too many pages without adequate crosslinking.