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> Arnold Zwicky on Link fanaticism
Kelly Martin
post Thu 17th July 2008, 6:46pm
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Some interesting comments from Language Log's Arnold Zwicky on the tendency of Wikipedia authors to overlink.

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post Thu 17th July 2008, 6:56pm
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What annoys me even more is that people create links that go to nowhere. Why create a redlink when there is no article or stub there?
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post Thu 17th July 2008, 10:19pm
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It's the culture of the factoid, rather than that of good ole fashioned content.

The links cover up for the fact that there is no content to speak of.
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