Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20140702091631/@comment-1251315-20140702093719

Looking at TES:OVERLINK seems to explain why so many links are included: the first sentence says "Every term or person referenced in an article needs to be linked to.", which I'm guessing that many have taken to "every time a word is mentioned, give it a link". The last sentence is clearly being overlooked, as it states: "Do not link to the page every time the word 'weapons' is repeated. This also applies when making 'recursive' links, or links from the current article to the current article, as in the above example."

The Manual of Style is full of contradictions and needs to be cleared up, along with the articles themselves.