[WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes

[Jay Litwyn]

"David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 2009/8/20 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
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>> 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.
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> {{otheruses}} and its variants.
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>> 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.
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> Finding multiple items is generally pretty easy. At least one more. (I
> was surprised and pleased to find so many for plankton.)
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> (And I was previously unaware that jellyfish are in fact a variety of 
> plankton.)

I think that is a stretch, and I am not a phylogenist, so I hav no clue what 
rules to follow.
It just seems that they are big and organized. Size is probably not a rule 
in phylogeny.
In a sign of the times, I understand that some varieties are prolific.