Talk:Clifton Gardens, New South Wales

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Well, yes,  that's the hatnote I put up before you reverted me.
WP:Hatnote rule #3 says: "Mention other topics and articles only if there is a reasonable possibility of a reader arriving at the article either by mistake or with another topic in mind". It's hard for me to imagine how someone interested in the Australian locality arrives at the New York article by mistake or how someone having New York in mind arrives somewhere in Australia. wbm1058 (talk) 00:02, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you didn't put anything up, you removed the hatnote  without any explanation and then reverted my replacement under WP:BRD.  You didn't discuss anything and then added it as a 'see also' which is not what that section is for (which is weirdly what you are referring to as a hatnote in your link above?). At no point did you communicate that the disambig page had been modified, you should use talk more. If someone is searching for Clifton Gardens they might arrive at the wrong one, let's help our readers. Stephen 00:46, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The explanation (edit summary) was "removing hatnote for Clifton Gardens" – usually that's sufficiently obvious. Clicking the link shows you that Clifton Gardens is another page – a disambiguation – and not a redirect to the article that I just removed the hatnote from. If someone is searching for Clifton Gardens they land on Clifton Gardens, the disambiguation page. You still haven't explained how you think it is possible for someone searching for Clifton Gardens, New South Wales to unintentionally land at Clifton Gardens, New York. The only way these hatnotes help readers is by answering the trivia question, are there any other places in the world that share the same name as the place that I was searching for, and successfully found? That's why I suggested moving the link down to the "see also" section. I expected that you would see that the hatnote was redundant, and, just remove it, rather than reverting me. It's still there, you haven't removed it. I can let it stay there, since it's no longer populating :Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review, but, as I said, the only purpose it serves is to answer a trivia question that might, theoretically, interest readers. That's not supposed to be a function for hatnotes. The main purpose of hatnotes is to help readers navigate to another article, because they found a primary topic which was not the (obscure) topic they were really looking for, but the topic that 90% of readers are looking for. The "see also" section at the bottom of the article is the appropriate place to put links to (tangentially) related topics that readers might have a trivial interest in learning about. – wbm1058 (talk) 09:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I have Clifton Gardens NSW in my watchlist so I've never come via a disambiguation page. You've written more than the New York article has content.  Nobody cares, they get less than 20 combined hits a day. Move on. Stephen 09:52, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The hatnote