Lists are something different from articles. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_lists Carcharoth On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Jay Litwyn<[email protected]> wrote: > List-class articles are lowest on the scale of quality. > Going up in rank, it is "list, stub, start, b-class, good article, feature > candidate, and once featured. > They are still useful for maintenance if you are, for instance, cribbing > notability from lists of award-winners. > And even for users who are looking up something obscure, if their first hit > is a disambig, then it is two clicks to a section. So, I am inclusionistic > on this subject. It is all trivia. Wikipedia excels in trivia. Even the > printed articles do not fit in twenty volumes, anymore; a few thousand, last > time I read about it. I could just about go against notability in this > thread, and I won't, because it is an important criterion for judging what > should be easy to find and what should be be clear. > > "Carcharoth" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
