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'Organist' and 'organ' should be wikilinked

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'Organ' can mean several things. And 'organist' may well be unfamiliar to many people who aren't involved with classical music. For, example, the article on American Guild of Organists does have link to organist. My adding of wikilinks was reverted by User:Grimes2 citing WP:MOS#What generally should not be linked, but it says "Unless a term is particularly relevant to the context in the article, words and terms understood by most readers in context are usually not linked". The terms 'organ' and 'organist' are clearly particularly relevant to the context of this article. The 'particularly relevant' is an important clarification, since otherwise articles on many familiar terms such as sky, woman etc. would have no links to them at all just based on the fact that most people know what they are. 62.73.72.3 (talk) 09:40, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Grimes2 that - while organ may have many meanings - organist seems a generally understood term. What else could it mean here? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:08, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am not claiming that 'organist' could mean anything else, I just doubt that the term is all that well-known in today's culture anymore; but in any case, it is 'particularly relevant to the context in the article'. In the article Niccolò Paganini, the lede has a link to violinist. Maria Callas has a link to soprano. Serge Diaghilev has links to art critic and ballet. The article about Barack Obama has a link to President of the United States. These are 'particularly relevant', albeit 'generally understood' terms.--62.73.72.3 (talk) 13:08, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You have convinced me to wikilink organist. Grimes2 (talk) 19:40, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]