OK. I'll break it down:
1) Do you accept that trivial disambiguations can be unencyclopedic?
Carcharoth
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:59 AM, <wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
I have no idea what you just ask. That's a lot of
jargon for one
question.
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From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 1:06 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes
Will, simple question: do you accept that trivial disambiguations can
be unencyclopedic and give the wrong impression, and if so, is having
a neutral dab hatlink better than a jarring note being sounded at the
top of a page, the first thing the reader will read after the title?
OK, that was a long simple question...
Carcharoth
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
This is how I do it. If in "Plankton"
we have only one other thing
named
planton, then we shouldn't have a disamg page
just for two items.
That seems
overkill. So in that case SB_Plankton makes
sense. If however in
"Bob
Jones" we have 15 people, 3 things, and 2
places named "Bob Jones"
then it
makes sense to have a disamg page.
I.E. there's a trade-off in having too many clicks, where it is? two
items? or three?
W.J
In a message dated 8/19/2009 7:37:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com writes:
> If there really is a chance that
> people will search for "plankton" in an attempt to find out about the
SB
character, then the hatnote should be neutral and direct people to
a disambiguation page ("for other things named plankton, see here").
And I don't care if that disambiguation page only has two entries.
That is an acceptable trade-off to having a spongebob squarepants
character name jarring people's reading experience by being placed at
the top of an unrelated article.
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