I have no idea what you just ask. That's a lot of jargon for one question.
-----Original Message----- From: Carcharoth <[email protected]> To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 1:06 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Annoying hatnotes Will, simple question: do you accept that trivial disambiguations can be unencyclopedic and give the wrong impression, and if so, is having a neutral dab hatlink better than a jarring note being sounded at the top of a page, the first thing the reader will read after the title? OK, that was a long simple question... Carcharoth On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > This is how I do it. If in "Plankton" we have only one other thing named > planton, then we shouldn't have a disamg page just for two items. That seems > overkill. So in that case SB_Plankton makes sense. If however in "Bob > Jones" we have 15 people, 3 things, and 2 places named "Bob Jones" then it > makes sense to have a disamg page. > > I.E. there's a trade-off in having too many clicks, where it is? two > items? or three? > > W.J > > > > In a message dated 8/19/2009 7:37:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > >> If there really is a chance that >> people will search for "plankton" in an attempt to find out about the >> SB character, then the hatnote should be neutral and direct people to >> a disambiguation page ("for other things named plankton, see here"). >> And I don't care if that disambiguation page only has two entries. >> That is an acceptable trade-off to having a spongebob squarepants >> character name jarring people's reading experience by being placed at >> the top of an unrelated article. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
