Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Reading/Show disambiguation hatnotes only on redirect/Proposal

• Problem: Many disambiguation hatnotes are confusing and unnecessary.
• Proposed solution: Only display disambiguation hatnotes when users are redirected from that term.
• Who would benefit: All readers of Wikipedia.
• More comments: If you visit the English Wikipedia article about the band Pink Floyd, the very first thing it says is:

"The Tea Set" and "The T-Set" redirect here. For tea service, see tea set. For the Dutch band, see Tee-Set. For other uses, see T Set (disambiguation).

There are two scenarios here:

1) You 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. Great! This hatnote will help you find what you need.

2) You arrived at the article by any other means – from Google, say, or a link from another Wikipedia article, or by typing "Pink Floyd" into the Wikipedia search box. In this case, you definitely weren't looking for information about tea sets or Dutch bands, and the hatnote serves no function. It's confusing (it looks like you've been redirected), it's distracting, and it takes up prime real estate right at the top of the article.

I've written some more detail about this problem here.

• Phabricator tickets: task T4012
• Proposer: Popcornfud (talk) 20:51, 10 January 2022 (UTC)