[WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes
Andrew Gray
andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
Wed Aug 19 16:59:07 UTC 2009
2009/8/19 Phil Nash <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>>> "For the SpongeBob character, see List of characters in SpongeBob
>>> SquarePants#Plankton"?
>
> It can get worse than that! I encountered, on [[Pol Pot]], {{seealso|Paul
> Potts}}, and vice versa. The IP addresses resolved to [[CERN]] of all
> places.
I still hold the best example I've seen of this was on [[Beirut]]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beirut&oldid=21810147
''For the drinking game, see [[Beer Pong]]''
...yeah.
[[Squirrel]] also used to have a hatnote directing people to something
like "Squirrels in Scientology", of all things. We actually got people
writing with complaints about that one, if memory serves.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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