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A dead-end page is a page that contains no internal links to other Wikipedia articles. Adding links to these pages will help to integrate them into the encyclopedia, and assist readers by allowing for easy cross-referencing of information.
In the Wikipedia glossary, an orphan is defined as "an article with no links from other pages in the main article namespace". These pages can still be found by searching Wikipedia, but it is preferable that they can also be reachable by links from related pages; it is therefore helpful to add links from other suitable pages with similar or related information.
Wikipedia is based on hypertext, and aims to "build the web" to enable readers to access relevant information on other Wikipedia pages easily. The page from which the hyperlink is activated is called the anchor; the page the link points to is called the target. In adding or removing links, consider an article's place in the knowledge tree ...
The following pages are disambiguation pages linked here to avoid appearing in the list of orphaned articles. (This is explained at Wikipedia:Disambiguation.) Pages on this list with lots of links to them can be found at the automatically generated page Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. Most of these links should point elsewhere—to ...
Ignoring external links or red links (links to non-existent pages) Stopping when reaching "Philosophy", or a page with no links, or when a loop occurs [3] Mathematician Hannah Fry demonstrated the method in the 'Marmalade', 'socks' and 'One Direction' [4] section of the 2016 BBC Documentary The Joy of Data. [5]
Pages in category "All articles with dead external links" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 315,175 total. ... Wikipedia® is a ...
If a page attracts many links or inappropriate links, a note in the external links section such as {{subst:no more links}} may discourage the addition of links. If a new or unregistered user persists in adding an inappropriate link to one or more pages, please consider leaving a message for User:XLinkBot.
If the link is unsolvable - that is, if the context provided on the page leaves no cues from which it can be solved, and a search of external sources provides no help - consider whether the link is necessary to the page at all. It is perfectly acceptable to unlink a term if the link itself serves no encyclopedic purpose.