Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Writing better articles (section)

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Remember that every Wikipedia article is tightly connected to a network of other topics. Establishing such connections via wikilink is a good way to establish context. Because Wikipedia is not a long, ordered sequence of carefully categorized articles like a paper encyclopedia, but a collection of randomly accessible, highly interlinked ones, each article should contain links to more ''general'' subjects that serve to [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categorize]] the article. When creating links, do not go overboard, and be careful to make your links relevant. It is not necessary to link the same term twelve times (although if it appears in the lead, then near the end, it might be a good idea to link it twice).

Avoid making your articles [[Wikipedia:Orphan|orphans]]. When you write a new article, make sure that one or more other pages link to it, to lessen the chances that your article will be orphaned through someone else's [[refactoring]]. Otherwise, when it falls off the bottom of the [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]] page, it will disappear into the [[Mariana Trench]]. There should always be an unbroken chain of links leading from the [[Main Page]] to every article in Wikipedia; following the path you would expect to use to find your article may give you some hints as to which articles should link to your article.