Andrew Gray 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.
I would say that classifying that hatnote as "inappropriate" smacks of not being sufficiently NPOV. It is us expressing a POV that such a game should not be referred to by that name. That we find it "inappropriate". We are in the business of writing an encyclopedia not editorializing on the appropriateness of what people name things (even obscure second albums from a band that was successful some number of years ago).
SKL