[WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes

[wjhonson at aol.com]

I have no idea what you just ask.  That's a lot of jargon for one 
question.


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From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>
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Sent: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 1:06 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes










Will, simple question: do you accept that trivial disambiguations can
be unencyclopedic and give the wrong impression, and if so, is having
a neutral dab hatlink better than a jarring note being sounded at the
top of a page, the first thing the reader will read after the title?

OK, that was a long simple question...

Carcharoth

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> This is how I do it.  If in "Plankton" we have only one other thing 
named
> planton, then we shouldn't have a disamg page just for two items. 
 That seems
> overkill.  So in that case SB_Plankton makes sense.  If however in 
"Bob
> Jones" we have 15 people, 3 things, and 2 places named "Bob Jones" 
then it
> makes sense to have a disamg page.
>
> I.E. there's a trade-off in having too many clicks, where it is?  two
> items? or three?
>
> W.J
>
>
>
> In a message dated 8/19/2009 7:37:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> carcharothwp at googlemail.com writes:
>
>
>> If there really is a chance that
>> people will search for "plankton" in an attempt to find out about the


>> SB character, then the hatnote should be neutral and direct people to
>> a disambiguation page ("for other things named plankton, see here").
>> And I don't care if that disambiguation page only has two entries.
>> That is an acceptable trade-off to having a spongebob squarepants
>> character name jarring people's reading experience by being placed at
>> the top of an unrelated article.
>
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