Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation
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Scope
All disambiguation pages, as described at Wikipedia:Disambiguation.
Goals
- Make disambiguation pages conform to the manual of style.
- Eliminate links to disambiguation pages, such as the massive list at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links, and keep Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance under control.
How to help
First, please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), which describes disambiguation pages; and Wikipedia:Disambiguation, which describes guidelines about when and how to disambiguate.
If you are a coder you can help with the automated tools:
- AutoWikiBrowser (.NET)
- Corhomo (Java)
- Dab solver (Toolserver)
- Navigation popups (User script)
- Solve disambiguation.py (Python)
- Wikipedia Cleaner (Java)
Create or move a disambiguation page
There are many instances where a new disambiguation page is needed. You can help by disambiguating the entries listed at Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation.
Use "Foo" rather than "Foo (disambiguation)" as the disambiguation page name unless there is a primary topic (see Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Generic topic). If "Foo" is a redirect to "Foo (disambiguation)", the disambiguation page is malplaced, and should be moved from "Foo (disambiguation)" to "Foo". In some cases, you may be able to use the move tool immediately. If the move requires an administrator, you can report it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Malplaced disambiguation pages#Manual list or tag the redirect with {{db-movedab}}.
Clean up a disambiguation page
Pick a page from Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup. Check the recent edit summaries in the history and the talk page for comments earlier editors may have left. When you finish cleaning up a page, please change its {{disambig-cleanup}} to {{disambig}} (or change {{hndis-cleanup}} to {{hndis}}).
If you see that a disambiguation page needs to be cleaned up, but you cannot or do not want to do it yourself, you can tag the page for cleanup by changing the {{disambig}} template to {{disambig-cleanup}} (or changing {{hndis}} to {{hndis-cleanup}}). These -cleanup templates add the page to Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup and change the descriptive text on the page. You can describe specific problems on the talk page of the disambiguation page to help other editors see what needs to be done.
Disambiguation pages do not use hatnotes, except for {{distinguish}} and {{selfref}} on base-name dabs. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Disambiguation pages with hatnotes for a list to investigate.
Repair incoming links
Most links from articles to disambiguation pages are in error and need to be repaired. They can be repaired by choosing an article and repairing all its links to disambiguation pages, or by choosing a disambiguation page and repairing all incoming links to it from articles.
To choose an article, type its page name into the dablinks tool (see below). For help see Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Fixing a page.
To choose a disambiguation page, see the "Finding disambiguation pages" section below. There is a Wikipedia Project devoted to this: Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links.
Do not guess how to fix the link; if you have trouble, tag the link with {{dn}}.
If you want a challenge, try to repair difficult links, those tagged with {{dn}}. Articles with such tagged links can be found in Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation, and tips on repairing them is given in Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Fixing links.
You may also consider "adopting" a disambiguation page.
When you fix or tag a link, leave an edit summary pointing to this project. Suggested edit summary:
- Repaired link to disambiguation page: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation|please help]]
Repair redirects
- Malplaced disambiguation pages
- Incorrect redirects ending in (disambiguation)
- Redirects tagged with {{disambig}}
Merge incomplete disambiguations
Incomplete disambiguation pages are disambiguation pages that also have a disambiguated title (a title with a parenthetical phrase appended). These disambiguated titles are supposed to be unambiguous; if they are still ambiguous, the incomplete disambiguation should redirect the disambiguation page or a section of it.
Related WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy, for pages related to the names of people
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Roadmap, for a method of putting any article in proper context by showing which other articles it depends upon and which articles depend on it
Resources
Finding disambiguation pages
- Dablinks, a Toolserver tool that lists ambiguous internal links in a page
- Special:Disambiguations shows pages with links to disambiguation pages (see also the list of disambig templates)
- Category:Disambiguation contains most all the pages that are in the scope of this WikiProject.
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links lists pages that relate to the goal of eliminating links to disambiguation pages
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance lists pages that are known to have had incoming links repeatedly in the past and require monitoring
- Current disambiguation collaboration at the Dab-pages-with-links page
- Wikipedia:Offline reports/Is this really a disambiguation page?, pages labeled as dabs that have only one article referenced on them (inactive page)
- Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup, dabs that have been tagged for needed attention
Templates
Disambiguation templates are listed under the "general" category of template message. Most of these templates do not have usage guidelines associated with them on their Talk pages, however, some direction is provided for hatnotes at Wikipedia:Hatnote#Hatnote templates and Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Disambiguation links.
- " * " = no usage guidelines
On disambiguation pages:
- {{Disambig}}
- {{Disambig-cleanup}}
- {{Hndis}} – articles associated with the same personal name
- {{Hndis-cleanup}}
- Topic-specific templates - these bring the disambiguation page to the attention of editors knowledgeable in the topic (through category includes or WikiProjects and often include topic specific language
- {{Geodis}} – distinct geographical locations with the same name
- {{Hospitaldis}}
- {{POWdis}} (places of worship)
- {{Schooldis}}
- {{Roaddis}}
- {{Airport disambig}} – airports with the same or similar names
- {{Mathdab}}
- {{Numberdis}} * – lists articles associated with the same number
On talk page:
- {{DisambigProject}} - For Talk pages with discussion. Please do not use to create talk pages that have no discussion.
On set index articles. Note that set index articles are similar to, but are not the same thing as, disambiguation pages:
- {{SIA}} * – The generic set index template.
- {{Mountainindex}} – For set index articles about mountain names.
- {{Shipindex}} – For lists of ships with the same or similar names.
On anthroponymy list articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy for specific guidelines. These are also not disambiguation pages, although short lists may be embedded on disambiguation pages.
- {{Given name}} – For given name pages or sections of disambiguation pages that list people by given names.
- {{Surname}} – For pages or sections of disambiguation pages that list people by family name.
Optional Wiktionary templates, for use on disambiguation pages:
- {{Wiktionary}} *
Lookfrom, for use on disambiguation pages where the term is used to form compound terms, this link lists all pages that begin with the specified term:
- {{lookfrom}} {{lookfrom|term}}
- The lookfrom template can also be wrapped in the {{selfref}} template to mark it as a self-reference:
- {{selfref|* {{lookfrom|term}}|}}
Hatnotes, for use on articles where reference to a disambiguation page is useful
- {{About}} *
- {{Other uses}}
- {{Redirect}} *
- {{For}} *
- {{Dablink}} *
- {{Other uses2}} *
- {{Other places}} *
- Category:Hatnote templates (all hatnote templates)
- Wiktionary:Template:wikipediaabbr * for use on Wiktionary pages
Redirect, for use on redirects that point to a disambiguation page
Inline, for use within article text where a link needs correcting, but it is unclear where it should link
- {{dn}} or {{Disambig needed}}
Project banner, for use on the disambiguation article's talkpage
- {{DisambigProject}}
User talk, for alerting editors to the dab guidelines
- {{subst:uw-dab}}
Userbox, for your own userpage
Barnstar, for awarding editors active in disambiguation
Misc
Deletion discussions
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disambiguations
Participants
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