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Linking
Linking is a balance between providing enough useful links to allow readers to "wander through" articles, overlinking that can distract them from their reading flow causing the eye to shift focus constantly, and underlinking that may frustrate them because they have to search for other sources to answer their questions, interrupting and distracting readers.

The guidelines for linking are:


 * Unless it affects the sentence's wording and readability in a negative way, two links should not be next to each other in the text so that it looks like one link. An example of what should be avoided is writing dungeon chest loot (coded as ). Consider rephrasing the sentence, omitting one of the links, or using a single, more specific link instead; for example dungeon chest loot (coded as dungeon chest loot).
 * Links for any single term should not be excessively repeated in the same article (linking the same term multiple times within a portion of text that can fit on a typical viewer's screen). The purpose of links is to direct the reader to a new spot when they most likely need to find more information.
 * Avoid repeating a link that has already been used in the same sentence, paragraph, or subsection of prose. Linking an important term more than once may sometimes be appropriate in certain contexts. Important terms may be linked more than once, may become overlinking if they are too close in proximity. It is acceptable for bulleted lists of terms to duplicate links already in prose. Terms with tangential relevance to the topic should never be linked more than once; for example, even though the term "tool" is used in all articles about blocks, and "player" is mentioned in nearly all articles, neither of these terms should be linked more than once (if at all) in any article.
 * Linking to a redirect is preferred over using a piped link, except in templates and other pages that are transcluded. If a piped link is unavoidable, it should not point to a redirect. If a redirect can be avoided using a suffix on the link, that is preferred (for example,  instead of  ).
 * Link to articles that are related to the context of the article from where they are found. As an example, linking to Fishing Rod may be appropiate in Tool, but it would be better to link to Fishing instead in Mechanics.