• Hatnote

    Origin

    From hat + note by analogy with footnote, endnote, etc.

    Full definition of hatnote

    Noun

    hatnote

    (plural hatnotes)
    1. (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) A short note placed at the top of an article, normally to provide links to other similarly named articles or disambiguation pages.
      • 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: the missing manual, If a reader searches for dioxin, she arrives at this article. The too-long hatnote on this page probably befuddled many readers looking for the Wikipedia article Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins
      • 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, A hatnote on this default page points readers to the disambiguation page if they're looking for articles using a different meaning of the term.

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