[WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes

[Carcharoth]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Tony Sidaway<tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:52 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2009/8/21 Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com>:
>> > 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.
>>
>>
>> It's an editorial issue. The two-item disambig is one workaround,
>> though more than two items is nice.
>>
> I don't know whether this is related, but the other day I found that the
> article Vienne contained two separate hatnotes, one disambiguating the
> French town of Vienne from the canton, and the other pointing to the article
> on Vienna.  I changed it to a two-item disambiguation relevant to the
> context. I don't think this is a huge problem at all.

But you've used a two-item disambiguation *hatnote*, whereas what
others (including me) would do is create a three-item disambiguation
page and link that from the top of the two items in question (but not,
obviously, for Vienna). Plus look for other things called Vienne.

i.e

Vienne can refer to:

*a département of France
*a French river
*a French city
*the French name for Vienna

Carcharoth