[WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes

[Keegan Paul]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:52 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?
>
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> - Andrew Gray
>  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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