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- noun Wiktionary and WMF jargon A short
note placed at the top of anarticle , normally to providelinks to other similarly named articles ordisambiguation pages.
Etymologies
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From hat + note by analogy with footnote, endnote, etc.
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Hatnotes are short notes placed at the top of a page or a section, in the way that a hat is placed on top of one's head. For an example, see the notes in italics immediately preceding the boxes above. The purpose of a hatnote is to help readers locate a different article if the one they are seeing is not the one they are looking for.
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I liked the bit early on when there was a very disproportionate hatnote that was all, "this is about the pope. for the antipope also called leo xiv, see [[conclavism]]"
Bluesky 2025
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