On 05/09/06, Richard Holton
<richholton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/5/06, Oskar Sigvardsson
<oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I do think that many times such notes can be wildly out of place. A
> perfect example somebody mentioned eariler is this thread is
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beirut&diff=21961432&oldiā¦
>
> Clearly an inappropriate "hatnote"
>
> But, again. make a disambig-page and you're fine. No need for anything
> else.
That example didn't require a disambiguation
note. Who would mistakenly go
to Beirut when looking for "Beer Pong"? Assuming good faith, whoever placed
this "hatnote" has a serious misunderstanding of the concept.
Presumably, someone who knows the game is called "Beirut" but has
never heard of "Beer Pong". Drinking games tend not to have very
well-standardised nomenclature.
I would say that classifying that hatnote as "inappropriate" smacks
of not being sufficiently NPOV. It is us expressing a POV that such a
game should not be referred to by that name. That we find it
"inappropriate". We are in the business of writing an encyclopedia not
editorializing on the appropriateness of what people name things (even
obscure second albums from a band that was successful some number of
years ago).
SKL