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This page in a nutshell: Disambiguation hatnotes are broken on Wikipedia. They should only be displayed when the user searches for the term we're disambiguating to. Anything else is confusing and wasteful. |
If you visit the article about the band Pink Floyd, the very first thing it says is:
This is a disambiguation hatnote. It's there because Pink Floyd performed under the name the Tea Set before they became famous. The idea is that you might have typed "The Tea Set" or "Tee-Set" into the Wikipedia search bar because you were looking for tea sets or the Dutch band, and not Pink Floyd, so this will help you find what you need.