Internal link building question

If I link a word in an article to the current page, will this still be a good link?

for example.

If I link the keyword on this page examplesite.com/article.html to point to the same page (examplesite.com/article.html essentially going knowhere).

Is this still a good link or does google know its going to the same page and just cancel out the link?

 

Google will obviously cancel out the link

 

I think this was a strategy 5 years ago, but there is no way this will work today.

 

google will ignore links from same page to same page

 

Yeah, I don't think this really works any more when building internal links.

 

Cheers guys, I will avoid doing this in the future.