[WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes

Andrew Gray andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
Fri Aug 21 12:52:11 UTC 2009


2009/8/21 quiddity <pandiculation at gmail.com>:

> For example, we have these pages, that are variously explicating,
> disambiguation, and listing:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_(disambiguation)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_water
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Water
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Water
> which in the main article, [[Water]], even manages to bring us back to
> the original topic, of yes, excessive or inappropriate hatnotes could
> be considered harmful!

I see the "outlines of X" pages are spreading. Last I saw, they were
being added in "see also" sections - when did they leap to the
forefront of the article?

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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