Talk:Valence Cathedral

Linking "church" in lede

@Eric: You are of course right to point to MOS:OVERLINK in general terms, but in this context the word "church" does need its own link, because of its location immediately after "Catholic" - if left unlinked it is likely to lead to the insertion of an incorrect link to "Catholic Church" by drive-by editors, for example as was done here by Alainprost 2 in December. So to discourage this, in this specific situation it makes better sense to leave the link in place. Best, Ingratis (talk) 09:45, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello Ingratis, are you saying that the link on the word church helps the reader understand that it refers to a physical structure, as opposed to the church as an organization? If so, I would think the context already makes that clear, this being the lead sentence of an article about a building. And I'd say the linked Catholic preceding the unlinked church, in conjunction with the indefinite article a, make it even more clear. That said, I'm not losing sleep over it. Eric ^talk 14:53, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm saying that the string "Catholic church" is more likely to be mislinked again if the element "church" has not previously been linked separately from the element "Catholic", so I think it better to retain the linked "church", even if it is not a big deal! Ingratis (talk) 19:58, 26 January 2025 (UTC)