[WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:24 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/8/19 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
>>
>>> Does anyone else get annoyed by certain hatlinks?
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton
>>> When I go to look something up on plankton (a core encyclopedic
>>> article if ever there was one), do I really want to have to read:
>>> "For the SpongeBob character, see List of characters in SpongeBob
>>> SquarePants#Plankton"?
>>
>> This is almost a FAQ on this list :-) The usual cure is a two-item
>> disambig page. For an example, see what I just did to [[Plankton]].
>
> Thanks.
>
> I feel informed now I know about:
>
> *Plankton Man
> *Electroplankton
> *United Plankton Pictures
>
> Purist dabbers will dispute some of those entries, but I think dab
> pages should be informative, as well as referring purely to things
> that might conceivably be searched for or linked to as "plankton".

Hey, you missed out:

*Plankton! - episode 3b(7) of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1)

I am impressed, though, that we have this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_the_plankton

And *three* articles on plankton surveys. Not stubs either. Really
rather nice articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_Plankton_Recorder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Continuous_Plankton_Recorder_Survey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCAR_Southern_Ocean_Continuous_Plankton_Recorder_Survey

Ooh, look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diel_vertical_migration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_layers_(oceanography)

I hope the SpongeBob SquarePants fans that went looking for
information on their favorite characters are reading these articles!
:-)

Carcharoth

PS. And people wonder why there is debate over articles on fiction?