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===Links===

Linking through hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. While external links help to embed Wikipedia into the external World Wide Web, internalInternal links (or 'wiki linkswikilinks') bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Links provide instant pathways to locations outside and within the project that are likely to increase our readers' understanding of the topic at hand. You can read more about how to add them [[Help:Introduction to editing with VisualEditor/3|here]].

For how many internal links to include in an article, you want to ask yourself, "How likely is it that a reader of this subject may be interested in that other article, or does it cover a concept not fully explained in the article?". Typically, the first instance of an important work should be linked to the relevant article on that topic.

For how many internal links to include in an article, you want to ask yourself, "How likely is it that a reader of this subject may be interested in that other article, or does it cover a concept not fully explained in the article?"

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Lennie and George came to a ranch near <span style="color:#000000;">'''[['''</span><span style="color:#666;">Soledad, California<span style="color:#000;">'''|'''</span>Soledad</span><span style="color:#000;">''']]'''</span> southeast of <span style="color:#000;">'''[['''</span><span style="color:#666;">Salinas, California</span><span style="color:#000;">''']]'''</span>, to "work up a stake".

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Lennie and George came to a ranch near [[Soledad, California|Soledad]] southeast of [[Salinas, California]], to "work up a stake".

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For external links, if there is an external website that is highly relevant to the article or provides more detail than the article contains, it should be listed in the 'External links' section with a short description. If an external website is used as a reference to the article's content, put it in the 'References' section. External links, with rare exception, should not be used in the article's body text.