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By the way, right now every time I add a new letter-article the number of dangling links goes UP.  This is because of the Letters box at the bottom of every letter-article; each newly finished article links to all of the letters in the list and until the halfway point is reached more dangling links than completed links appear.  After the halfway point the number of dangling links will diminish rapidly but any Tolkien Gateway statistician out there needs to be a little patient.
By the way, right now every time I add a new letter-article the number of dangling links goes UP.  This is because of the Letters box at the bottom of every letter-article; each newly finished article links to all of the letters in the list and until the halfway point is reached more dangling links than completed links appear.  After the halfway point the number of dangling links will diminish rapidly but any Tolkien Gateway statistician out there needs to be a little patient.
Gamling 02:10, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

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Whew! Of the 16 new articles I have made summarizing the Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien in the last 17 days this one was the most difficult. Not only was it the longest one I've tackled so far, it had the most incoming links. As part of my methodology for handing these summaries I look at all of the incoming links to make sure that they are addressed. I feel that people following the links shouldn't come into an article and say, "Why does subject X link to Letter Y when subject X isn't mentioned?"

This leads to a question for any peer reviewers out there. I condensed the 8 pages of the letter in the book to 3 pages in Word before copying it into the Tolkien Gateway. Am I hitting a proper balance between conciseness and completeness? This letter had a lot of good information which tempts a summary-writer to perhaps put in too much stuff, and the need to address the incoming links may make a summary more detailed than is proper.

By the way, right now every time I add a new letter-article the number of dangling links goes UP. This is because of the Letters box at the bottom of every letter-article; each newly finished article links to all of the letters in the list and until the halfway point is reached more dangling links than completed links appear. After the halfway point the number of dangling links will diminish rapidly but any Tolkien Gateway statistician out there needs to be a little patient. Gamling 02:10, 29 March 2011 (UTC)