On 9/5/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/09/06, Richard Holton richholton@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/5/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
I do think that many times such notes can be wildly out of place. A perfect example somebody mentioned eariler is this thread is
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beirut&diff=21961432&oldid...
Clearly an inappropriate "hatnote"
But, again. make a disambig-page and you're fine. No need for anything else.
That example didn't require a disambiguation note. Who would mistakenly go to Beirut when looking for "Beer Pong"? Assuming good faith, whoever placed this "hatnote" has a serious misunderstanding of the concept.
Presumably, someone who knows the game is called "Beirut" but has never heard of "Beer Pong". Drinking games tend not to have very well-standardised nomenclature.
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
BTW, I just looked at that article ([[Beer Pong]], that is), and it's a freakshow! It's got diagrams and everything, and it is rivaling many featured articles in length. Either someone has waaaaaaaaaay to much time on their hands, or something very fishy is going on. I'm tempted to put a comment in the wikitext that says "Attention! Many other articles need help! Don't waste time here!" or something ;)
--Oskar