hatnote

English

Etymology

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

Noun

hatnote (plural hatnotes)

1. (wiki jargon) A short note placed at the top of an article, normally to provide links to other similarly named articles or disambiguation pages.

   Synonym: headnote

   • 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 320:

     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, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, page 237:

     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.

See also

• endnote
• footnote
• headnote

Anagrams

• Teonaht, atoneth, that one