On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Tony Sidaway<tonysida...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/19/09, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Does anyone else get annoyed by certain hatlinks? > > I don't see the problem here. Be bold and remove crap, whether > pointless hatnotes or anything else.
They are not pointless. Usually some form of disambiguation and hatnote is needed, but the question is how to do it. Refer neutrally to a disambiguation page (of whatever size) or take something from a wildly unrelated topic and plaster it across the top of an article just because there are only two things of that name (as far as we know). On the wider point, one person's crap is another person's informative link. There are currently debates going on about overlinking and it is actually very difficult to get people to agree on what the right level of linking in any particular article is. Different people will link different things for different reasons. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l