Talk:Former South African apartheid regime's police minister repents

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Excessive Interwiki Links[edit]

As a feature of mediawiki, interwiki links can be really really handy. However, when every simple English word is wikilinked, it looks strange and can actually hinder smooth eye movement across a sentence. In some places, interwiki links can serve to be an effective context (eg I interwiki'ed "Lord" to w:God, because it may not be clear to someone who doesn't speak English or isn't a religious person that "Lord" commonly refers to a diety); however, using them to define simple words (like w:church) is overkill. Church is among the words known by the vast majority of English speakers and readers. As well as "apology", "poison", etc.

Overall, this is an excellent article and well targetted to the South African audience. There doesn't seem to be a great deal of traffic on the African Portal, so your work here is very much appreciated.

irid:t 10:40, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]