[WikiEN-l] My irrelevant hatnote disambiguation policy

[Sam Korn]

On 9/5/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/4/06, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps "mock" is the wrong word.  I agree with Steve that seeing a
> > reference to some obscure band's second album or some equally obscure
> > video game character on almost every science or history article is
> > highly annoying and detracts from the seriousness of the subject.
>
> I don't get this 'detracts from the seriousness of the subject'.  Do
> science or history articles get all embarassed to be in the same
> encyclopedia as more "trivial" subjects?  Do the writers of such
> articles, or the readers?

No, it just looks silly. :-)

-- 
Sam