When everything is a hyperlink, nothing is a hyperlink. You can trivially make every word a hyperlink by running a script which attaches the dictionary.com entr

When everything is a hyperlink, nothing is a hyperlink. You can trivially make every word a hyperlink by running a script which attaches the dictionary.com entry for each word. I would never click on those links, and never know if a link was legitimate. Instead of link quantity, you need link quality. That seems like common sense, but most major wikipedia articles agree with the this piece's author more than me. When I open a big article, I would personally prefer it if 1/4 as much of the text is blue-underlined as what I find. Links should be used to bring the reader's attention to key information that is useful context but only expanded on elsewhere. Not any text that could be conceivably linked to some other random article. If I needed that, I would just manually search for the topic. In a world of scarce and distinct links, my curiosity would draw me to click on many, and I would go down wormholes in the way tvtropes pulls of. But spammed fluff links are useless.