[WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes

[quiddity]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Andrew Gray<andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> 2009/8/21 quiddity <pandiculation at gmail.com>:
>
>> For example, we have these pages, that are variously explicating,
>> disambiguation, and listing:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_(disambiguation)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_water
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Water
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Water
>> which in the main article, [[Water]], even manages to bring us back to
>> the original topic, of yes, excessive or inappropriate hatnotes could
>> be considered harmful!
>
> I see the "outlines of X" pages are spreading. Last I saw, they were
> being added in "see also" sections - when did they leap to the
> forefront of the article?

It was an experiment that was being tested a few months ago. No new
hatnotes are being added for these (afaik), but the old ones haven't
all been cleaned up yet.

Quiddity