OK. I'll break it down: 1) Do you accept that trivial disambiguations can be unencyclopedic?
Carcharoth On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:59 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
