Wikipedia:Avoid using wikilinks

• All those blue words are confusing. It makes the reader think, "What should I do with this? Click? Or just view and appreciate the simplicity of this tranquil blue text floating in a sea of black?" Many users think this is potentially harmful to readers and may cause overheating. The color blue has also been linked to depression and reduced fertility.
• Heavily wikilinked texts resemble spaghetti code. Doubly so if you have "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange" activated in your preferences, because half of these pages are.
  • Having green links for redirects, which can be found here and here can create even more chaos when compounded with yellow and blue links.
• If a link points to a page that does not exist yet, the link appears as red (also called a "redlink"), which looks bad. The color red has also been linked to fire and feelings of anger.
• Every time a page is moved, all the wikilinks that incorrectly point to the old site will now point to a redirect, making the servers pull up two pages in a row.
• All of these actions waste valuable server resources.
• True Wikipedians never need links anyway. That is what the search bar was invented for.
  • And all of that scrolling is good for their fingers.
• Wikilinks create many problems for readers using smartphones or other touch screen devices, as they make it difficult to scroll through an article without accidentally clicking on a link. This can be frustrating if pages load slowly on readers' devices.

Somewhat ironically, this page is a perfect example of the harms of wikilinks.

• Wikipedia:Avoid using preview button
• Wikipedia:Blue Sea with a sea of blue
• MOS:SEAOFBLUE