[WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Tony Sidaway<tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/19/09, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone else get annoyed by certain hatlinks?
>
> I don't see the problem here.  Be bold and remove crap, whether
> pointless hatnotes or anything else.

They are not pointless. Usually some form of disambiguation and
hatnote is needed, but the question is how to do it. Refer neutrally
to a disambiguation page (of whatever size) or take something from a
wildly unrelated topic and plaster it across the top of an article
just because there are only two things of that name (as far as we
know).

On the wider point, one person's crap is another person's informative
link. There are currently debates going on about overlinking and it is
actually very difficult to get people to agree on what the right level
of linking in any particular article is. Different people will link
different things for different reasons.

Carcharoth