Overlinking

Overlinking in a webpage or other hyperlinked text is having too many hyperlinks (links).^[1][2]

It is characterized by:

• A large proportion of the words in each sentence are rendered as links.^{[citation needed]}
• Links that have little information content, such as linking on specific years like 1995, or unnecessary linking of common words used in the common way, for which the reader can be expected to understand the word's full meaning in context, without any hyperlink help.^{[citation needed]}
• A Hyperlink for any single term is excessively repeated in the same article. "Excessive" is usually more than one link for the same term in a line or a paragraph, since in this case, one or more duplicate Hyperlinks will almost certainly then appear needlessly on the viewer's screen. The purpose of links is to direct the reader to a new spot at the point(s) where the reader is most likely to take a temporary detour due to needing more information. Providing more Hyperlink samples for the same word in a short space (as in the example of this paragraph) doesn't help much.^{[citation needed]}