[WikiEN-l] My irrelevant hatnote disambiguation policy

[Andrew Gray]

On 05/09/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/09/06, Rob <gamaliel8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What about changing hatnotes to something like a wikiquote box?  Stick
> > it in the upper right hand corner of the article and have it read
> > something like the standard generic hatnote does now.
>
>
> {{otheruses}} is a template; it's used in RATHER A LOT of places, so I
> wouldn't mess with it without checking with the devs that something
> nasty wouldn't happen to the database (I remember when someone changed
> {{stub}} and everything ground to a halt for a while), but if you
> think something non-ugly can be done that would get consensus, then
> fine.

Plus this would just be patchy - there's about four or five different
{{otheruses}} variants, and a vast number which are manually styled.

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- Andrew Gray
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