Talk:Hatter (disambiguation)

(Merge?)
This page should be merged to hatter —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChildofMidnight (talk • contribs) 05:04, 9 August 2009
 * That was about the article "Millinery", which has indeed become a broader, unisex article and is now at Hatmaking with Hatter a Rdr to it, and Millinery a Dab that links to Hatmaking among other pages. --Jerzy•t 02:35, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Splitting out "Mad Hatter" and "Mad as..."
MoSDab says that "several variants of a term ... being disambiguated together" (i.e., on the same Dab page) can be appropriate, but does not even hint, among 7 examples using such "or" formats, that any thing two things less confusable than those -- i.e, than differ ing only by case, diacritics, or grammatical number -- should be connected in an "or" structure. Going so far as to treat instances of "Hatter", "Mad Hatter", and "Mad as a hatter"', above the "See also" entries -- despite the relevant presumptions that the section "Examples of individual entries that should not be created" practically demands -- is outrageous if any workable alternative exists. That alternative is almost always the use of the "See also" section to link to other Dab pgs that appropriately include strongly associated, but aggressively distinct, terms. In terms of serving users, the fact that we can serve properly the few misguided or grossly confused users (say, those who type "hatter" as if it were a shortcut for finding the entry adjacent to "hatter, mad as a" in an alpha index), without slowing down the work of insightful and experienced users, by flooding the Dab entries they need with (for their purposes) irrelevant entries, makes our proper course clear, even without the reference to the guidelines. --Jerzy•t 03:59 & 08:39, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The Mad Hatter (disambiguation) pg already existed, but entries it needed were on this talk page's accompanying Dab. I created the third of these Dab pgs, drawing IIRC from both the others and adding at least one new entry. --Jerzy•t 08:39, 19 October 2010 (UTC)