Talk:The Nursemaid Who Disappeared

Link to "Cinema of the United Kingdom"

WP:EGG states, "Keep piped links as intuitive as possible. Per the principle of least astonishment, make sure that the reader knows what to expect when clicking on a link." There is no way that a user new to Wikipedia is going to expect that "British" will link to "Cinema of the United Kingdom", rather than, say, Great Britain, or some other article. The link is thus neither intuitive, nor helpful to readers, and should not have been restored, as Beyond My Ken did here. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 21:39, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

And as far as this edit is concerned, I do not consider it reasonable to use a section heading such as "plot" for a description of a film that consists of only three sentences. Three sentences do not properly describe a plot; they are a summary, at most. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 21:41, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

It is completely intutitive that a link in "British" in a film article will go to an article about British cinema. This is what is known as "contextual hyperlinks" and many wwebsite try hard to provide them, while we work hard to get rid of them. It is, in fact totally unintuitive that it will go to an article about British people. BMK (talk) 21:45, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

No, it is not. You as an established editor may well rationalize such a link in that way, but a new Wikipedia reader has no way of knowing what to expect from a "British" link in a film article, or what you or other editors were thinking when you linked. You cannot attribute your own views and expectations to new Wikipedia readers. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 21:48, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Oh, that's baloney. If I'm reading a film article, I would expect "British" to mean "British film". BMK (talk) 21:50, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

You see the problem with your reasoning. You may expect "British" to connect to an article about British films, but other Wikipedia readers are not you. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 21:52, 29 June 2016 (UTC)