[WikiEN-l] My irrelevant hatnote disambiguation policy

[ScottL]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 05/09/06, Richard Holton <richholton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/5/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at 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=21810147
>>>
>>> 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