Tardis:Wikify wisely

When you wikify a word, you enclose it in double brackets, creating a link to another article.

To increase the utility of this wiki, every unique noun in an article that can be wikified should be wikified. By clear community consensus, there's no such thing as an article that's "too small" or "too insignificant". If a word appears in a narrative this wiki covers, an article about it is allowable.

Thus, when writing articles, you should never assume "there isn't an aritcle about that on this wiki". Test words by starting with two brackets and the first few letters of your word. The auto-suggest feature will pop up and reveal whether we have an article with that name. For instance, if you type you'll get a ton of words beginning with "Gla". Click on the word you want, and it's instantly wikified. Make sure you capitalise the resulting link as the context of the sentence requires.

Redlinks
Should you find that an article does not yet exist, you are positively encouraged to create a redlink like this. Some people think of redlinks as ugly or pointless. In truth, they're requests — or, if you like, links to future articles. They say to readers, "We know we should have an article about this topic, but we don't, yet." When a redlink is created, it is added to the list at Special:WantedPages. This will then increase the chances that the page will be created, because some editors use WantedPages as a way to prioritise their work. The more redlinks that are created for a word, the higher up on the list it will go, further increasing the chances that it will be created.

If there should be an article about something, it is better to create a redlink for it than to not link it at all.

Don't over-wikify
There is such a thing as over wikification. By way of long-standing forum consensus, it is recommended that you limit the number of times you wikify the same word in a single article. Generally, it is preferred that you link to only the first instance of a word in each section of an article. If the article is not sectionalised, but has large, multi-sentence paragraphs, then wikify the word once a paragraph. To give a practical example, we don't want the Doctor linked every single time we see it, but we do want it linked enough so that if we scroll down in an article we can still find the occasional link.