Talk:Hatnote

This is the talk page of a redirect. This page is currently at RfD which has disabled the redirect. Discussion about this redirect should occur at the RfD subject page linked to at Hatnote.

This article was nominated for deletion. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination:

No consensus, 17 September 2023, see discussion.
No consensus, 6 September 2022, see discussion.
Keep, 20 July 2016, see discussion.
soft redirect to Wikipedia:Hatnote, 8 October 2008 (UTC), see discussion.

Should this article exist?

I've just removed the {{selfref}} tag added to this, because I think the article does no harm and is useful to keep. It replaced a redirect to Footnote which was not useful. It's an orphan and should remain so... but if anyone actually looks for "hatnote" they will be informed of the context in which it is used (WP) and given a link to where it's explained. The arguments at Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid are (a) that self-refs "distract from the topic at hand" - not so here; and (b) that they "limit the use of Wikipedia as an open source encyclopedia suitable for forking", but presumably any use of WP would involve selecting a subset of linked or categorised articles, and this little orphan would never be in such a selection. PamD (talk) 07:10, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just have it as a redirect to Wikipedia:Hatnote. Or is this against some policy? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 20:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]