hatnote
A short note placed at the top of an article, normally to provide links to other similarly named articles or disambiguation pages.
Noun
- A short note placed at the top of an article, normally to provide links to other similarly named articles or disambiguation pages.
- 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, John Broughton,...
- 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. - 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And...
Synonyms: headnote
Origin
From hat + note by analogy with footnote, endnote, etc.