[WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes

[David Gerard]

2009/8/20 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:

> That is why I am saying that it is best to have a neutral form for hatnotes:
> "For other things with this name, see XXXX (disambiguation)".
> Or whatever the standard wording is.


{{otheruses}} and its variants.


> Anyway, in most cases of "two item disambiguation pages" there are
> actually more than two items. Even if they are redlinks, it is
> normally easy to expand said disambiguation page. That is preferable
> to having the trivial hatnote forcing people to read about something
> they might not want to read about.


Finding multiple items is generally pretty easy. At least one more. (I
was surprised and pleased to find so many for plankton.)

(And I was previously unaware that jellyfish are in fact a variety of plankton.)


- d.