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Please join the discussions on our project's talk page. Suggested changes and additions to the WikiProject are always welcome there.

All disambiguation pages, as described at Wikipedia:Disambiguation.

1. Create and expand disambiguation pages.
2. Copy-edit disambiguation pages to conform to the Manual of Style.
3. Eliminate links to disambiguation pages, such as the massive list at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links, and keep Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/The Daily Disambig under control.

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 an editor, you can use these tools; if you are a coder, you can help with these tools:

• AutoWikiBrowser (.NET)
• Corhomo (Java)
• Dab solver (External tool); deprecated, no longer works, see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links/Archive 15#Dabsolver is down
• Navigation popups (User script)
• Solve disambiguation.py (Python)
• WPCleaner (Java)
• DisamAssist (User script)

There are many instances where a new disambiguation page is needed.

Use "Foo" rather than "Foo (disambiguation)" as the disambiguation page name unless there is a primary 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 technical assistance, you can report it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Malplaced disambiguation pages#Manual list or list it at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests.

There are still many disambiguation pages that do not yet contain all entries they are supposed to. To help with that, go to the reports list and select "Missing entries". This will take you to the report where you can choose a dab page to expand. When you click on it, you will be presented with the Dabfix interface where that page is preloaded with the missing entries added and further changes suggested. Review the missing entry and the linked article to ensure they are suitable for inclusion (you can Ctrl+click (PC) or ⌘ Command+click (Mac) on a blue link to be taken to the corresponding article) and then copyedit the automatically generated descriptions before saving. You can also work manually using the information found in the report.

Please note these reports haven't been updated since April 2019.

Pick a page from Category:Disambiguation pages containing one non-primary topic, and see if you can find (or create) other articles in the wiki that can be added to turn a 2-DAB into a 3-or-more DAB.

If you come across a page with only 2 ambiguous terms, one of which is the primary topic, you can tag the top with {{One other topic}}, which will notify users that the page needs additional disambiguation terms, and will place the page in 2-DAB category listed above.

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 {{disambiguation cleanup}} to {{disambiguation}} (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 {{disambiguation}} template to {{disambiguation 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.

You can also use dabfix (see above) to help you cleanup a dab page.

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 {{disambiguation needed}}.

If you want a challenge, try to repair difficult links, those tagged with {{disambiguation needed}}. Articles with such tagged links can be found in Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation, and tips on repairing them are 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]]

• Malplaced disambiguation pages

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 normally redirect to the disambiguation page or a section of it.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Incomplete disambiguations

When using Dabfix to tag pages, please note that there are common-sense exceptions to every rule, and a disambiguation page which violates one or more of the following guidelines (such as multiple blue links in an entry, or piped links) might not require cleanup; please use your best judgment when tagging.

	Code	Description	MoS	Pages		Autofix
1	O	More than one red link on a line	MOS:DABRL	1,003	0.37%	No
2	N	Red link with no blue link	MOS:DABRL	29,058	10.78%	No
3	M	Multiple blues link on a line	MOS:DABENTRY	41,213	15.28%	Yes
6	P	Punctuation on line	MOS:DABENTRY	25,257	9.37%	Yes
7	L	No bullet lists	MOS:DABENTRY	352	0.13%	#→*
9	C	Non-capitalized entry†	MOS:DABENTRY	2,255	0.84%	Yes
10	B	Bold text on line	MOS:DABENTRY	2,058	0.76%	Yes
11	F	Less than two blue links on the page	WP:TWODAB	4,013	1.49%	Suggestions
12	E	External link	MOS:DABEXT	1,181	0.44%	No
13	R	<ref> tag	MOS:DABENTRY	955	0.35%	No
14	S	Unpiped #section on line	MOS:DABSECTION	1,479	0.55%	Usually
-	T	Link is piped to hide (subject) suffix	MOS:DABPIPE	23,836	8.84%	Usually
-	X	Excessively long line	MOS:DABENTRY	1,453	0.54%	No
-	H	Long unbroken list (30+ item)		596	0.22%	No
-	U	No link on line	MOS:DABENTRY	6,158	2.28%	Re-links
2024-11-03 Open Dabfix Random cleanup

• Linkclassifier, a script highlighting links based on type of target, including disambiguation pages
• Special:DisambiguationPages lists up to 10,000 disambiguation pages
• Category:Wikipedia disambiguation contains 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/The Daily Disambig 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
• Category:Disambiguation pages containing one non-primary topic, dabs that need more ambiguous terms to be added
• Candidates for disambiguation by extending link
• Possible hatnote disambiguation links
• Potentially intentional dablinks

• Project watchlist

Disambiguation templates are listed under the "general" category of template messages. 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:

• {{Disambiguation}}
• {{Disambiguation cleanup}}
• {{Human name disambiguation}} – articles associated with the same personal name
• {{Human name disambiguation 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
  • {{Airport disambiguation}} – airports with the same or similar names
  • {{Hospital disambiguation}}
  • {{Mathematical disambiguation}}
  • {{Number disambiguation}}* – lists articles associated with the same number
  • {{Place name disambiguation}} – distinct geographical locations with the same name
  • {{School disambiguation}}
• {{Incoming links}} – when many mainspace pages (articles) link to a disambiguation page, for example, as the result of a page move

On talk pages:

• {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} – Project banner 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:

• {{Set index article}}* – The generic set index template.
• {{Lake index}} – For lists of lakes with similar names.
• {{Locomotive index}} – For lists of locomotives, or classes of locomotives, with similar names.
• {{Mountain index}} – For set index articles about mountain names.
• {{Road index}} – For set index articles about roads.
• {{Ship index}} – For lists of ships with the same or similar names.
• {{Sport index}} – For lists of sports related articles with similar names.

Link formatting (See Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Title templates):

• {{fti}} – put subject title, but not parenthetical disambiguating term, in italics
• {{ftq}} – put subject title, but not parenthetical disambiguating term, in quotes

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 template, for use on disambiguation pages:

• {{Wiktionary}}*

Look from and In title, for use on disambiguation pages where the term is used to form compound terms:

• {{Look from}} <span class="selfreference">[[Special:PrefixIndex/term|All pages with titles beginning with ''term'']]</span>
• {{In title}} <span class="selfreference">[[Special:Search/intitle:"term"|All pages with titles containing ''term'']]</span>

Hatnotes, for use on articles where reference to a disambiguation page is useful

• {{About}}*
• {{For}}*
• {{Hatnote}}*
• {{Other people}}
• {{Other places}}*
• {{Other uses}}
• {{Redirect}}*
• {{Redirect-distinguish}}
• {{Similar names}}

Redirects, for use on redirects that point to a disambiguation page

• {{R from ambiguous term}}
• {{R from incomplete disambiguation}}
• {{R to disambiguation page}}

Inline, for use within article text where a link needs correcting, but it is unclear where it should link

• {{dn}} or {{Disambiguation needed}}

User talk, for alerting editors to the dab guidelines

• {{subst:uw-dab}}

Userbox, for your own userpage

• {{User WP Disambiguation}}

Barnstar, for awarding editors active in disambiguation

• {{subst:Disambiguator's Barnstar}}

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Wikipedia disambiguation

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
WikiProject Disambiguation

• List of all subpages of this page

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Popular pages, a monthly listing of the project's most viewed mainspace pages
• User:PrimeHunter/Pageviews.js, see page views for all wikilinks on a disambiguation page, e.g. Massviews on Wiki (disambiguation)
• WikiNav, a tool that can visualise the outgoing traffic from dab pages; the underlying data is from the Clickstream

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disambiguations

Project participants

This user is a participant in WikiProject Disambiguation. Please insert your details here (in alphabetical order please). Use {{User WP Disambiguation}} on your user page if you wish to post your pride in joining this esteemed WikiProject. 16@r 1857a 786b6364 8UB3RG1N3, who has created 4 disambiguation pages already! A Lambent Eye is new to Wikipedia and eager to help. * AchedDamiman A smart kitten Adjusting After Midnight Againme. I do political parties from all over the world, an some other things. Just did Magonia AK456. Stumbled upon the WP:DPL list and kind of hung on to it. AKeen All Is One Andareed AnemoneProjectors I love creating and cleaning up disambiguation pages AnnaKucsma I add banners to talk pages when I find talk pages that need them. Anthony Ivanoff Aqwis Arbitarily0 Arbor to SJ ArcAngel Arthena Artichoke-Boy Auntof6 User:AugustusAudax likes to add to hatnotes and create disambiguation pages. Avg W Azylber - creating dab pages whenever necessary bd2412 BeenAroundAWhile Beerest355 - I create lots of dabs and stuff. Beginning is formally committing to her sick addiction.  :) Benzband will fix messy dabs when he stumbles upon them ;) billinghurst older≠wiser Not sure how much I'll actively participate in project tasks, but I have an interest in dab pages. Bneu2013 - Created several disambiguation pages. Boleyn Brainulator9 BryanG Brz7 (one of my favourite activities on Wikipedia!) BurtAlert Burzmali - Working on human name dab pages, over 2 weeks and I am still fixing Johns CALR Canglesea - Chipping away at the Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links list CAPTAIN RAJU Carbon Caryatid. I have been tidying up dab pages for a long time and have just discovered this project. Cate CatherineMunro CatMan 149 Cedar Tree Certes Chaser Checkingfax, I like crafting DABs and cetegorizing them properly Chris the speller - I move lots of namecruft from dab pages to surname and given name articles Cindamuse CJewell Clariosophic I have been working on dab pages relating to NRHP listings, churches, etc. Clarityfiend Coastside Worked on Category:Orientation dab pages Commander Keane CoolCityCat - Guilty for disambiguating myself. CoolieCoolster Correogsk or Gustavo CPAScott CQ CSWarren I do a lot of link-disambiguating already, so I guess I should sign up here. Cúchullain I work on disambiguation pages a lot, so I guess it's time to join up. DaGizza Dan Leveille Davey2010 • (talk) - Joined 12 July 2014. Deep Gabriel Deizio - just love it.... DENAMAX Dig deeper Diptanshu.D DirkJandeGeer Dispenser Docu Doncram Dorkules DPdH - I've been working with disamb.pages without knowing of this project! Now formally joining it. Dpleibovitz - adding DAB entries and possibly converting DABs to broad-concept articles. DrWarpMind Ds2320 Dumelow Echuck215 EdGl (disambiguation link repair) EdTre Elonka (my second home is at Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup) EMachine I think that fixing pages that link to disambiguation pages sounds fun. Emperor - as I'm doing a lot of disambiguating anyway I might as well sign up Encephalon Enchanter Esprit15d Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) Euryalus EWikistTalk EWS23 - I've been involved in WP:DPL since September 2005; not sure why I didn't put my name on this list sooner. Ezhiki FF2010 fififolle Fiftytwo Thirty Finnusertop – I do this a lot using the Linkclassifier script. Floquenbeam This looks like something I could help with when I have a free minute here or there. Flooded with them hundreds "Flux55" - I like improving Wikipedia (o - o) Felix Folio Secundus, interested in the topic but busy with other projects FortDJ33 France3470 Francois-Pier Funandtrvl Fyrael Gaff Gamesmaster G-9 Geniac Geofferybard This project is quite important as people often meld unrelated topics into one article. Sometimes a daughter class usurps, also. Geographyinitative Geography George Ho GimliDotNet throwing my hat in the ring. Godsy Goldom Dunno why I hadn't found this project sooner, I do tons of this Golem08 Gongshow Goochelaar Gorthian GraemeMcRae grubber gupdoo3  3oodpug - came here to fix links, might branch out Hackerboyas Hairy Dude - Fixing disambig notices to use templates seems to be one of the things I do most. I've also created a couple of disambig pages. Helloheart - Disambiguation pages are an important category in Wikipedia, and we need to improve them. Henrygg98 HindWIKI - fixing disambiguation links using DisamAsist. HopeChrist - My interests are in the religion and spirituality related disamb. pages HTinC23 Hutcher, I just like clean DABs Ian Manka I dream of horses Ixfd64 J04n Jakas1 Jay Starz Jameboy Jamesmcmahon0 - I use AWB help where I can! Jeff - with the aid of CorHomo and Navigation popups Jenova20 - Recommended by JhunterJ Jerzy - When MoSDab was sent for consensus, I (briefly) thought it was a mistake, so I guess it's appropriate for this to finally be my first WikiProject. Jevansen Jiten Dhandha  —jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) joined 2016-06-18 Joeyfjj Just getting started... JohnLaurensAnthonyRamos333 Johnny Au johnSLADE Jokestress Josh Parris Josve05a Joy Jsmith1000 Jw21 - Helping to make the Wikipedia Experience faster and more enjoyable. Karenjc joined 12 July 2008. Kawa (talk) 22:55, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply] Kenb215 - October 10, 2006 Kingjamie - January 5, 2007 (help out with mainly sporting Disambiguation's) KingSkyLord - for convenience Konveyor Belt Kpalion — I occasionally create or cleanup disamb. pages so I thought I'd add my name here. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga Kusma La Ovo LAX Legotech Hoping I can help out some Lemnaminor Lenoxus Leschnei ŁittleÄlien¹8² LittleWink Llew Mawr — the cleanup, organisation and creation of dab pages and hatnotes Logan Loopy30 love krittaya Lymoz Mac Davis Magioladitis Mahanga Maias Malpass93 Mark Schierbecker - Making obsure landmarks easier to find since 2009. Mareino -- I do enough of this anyway, that I might as well stay informed about the latest guidelines Mark Miller Matchups I started fixing pages as I run into them, after being corrected on "prettifying" a dab page. I also created {{mosdab}}. mathmitch7 Matthew Yeager Md. Golam Mukit Khan me_and Meclee MECU Mdebets Merenta Mervyn Micheledisaveriosp Michfan2123 This is addicting, I don't know why Millichip MrLinkinPark333 Milton Stanley - This is fun. Mo ainm Mr. Yondris Ferguson (talk) 13:26, 24 June 2014 (UTC) - Will clean disambiguation wherever possible.[reply] Michael Z. Nahallac Silverwinds NapoliRoma I've been fixing pages as I see them for a while now; not sure what it means to add myself to the list, but count me in Narky Blert 24 February 2016 Natalya Natg 19 Nehrams2020 NeilHynes Nekura Neonumbers Nguyên Lê Nick Number Nihonjoe NijikasDorito Nikki311 Norwaystudent Ntsimp I've been repairing links for a few weeks; just found this page. OrdinaryGiraffe Paine – yooba dooba DAB! Paintspot PamD Pariah24 Parsecboy I pretty much just stick to WP:MDP, probably not so much in any of the rest of the project. Pb30 Perry Middlemiss Persent101 – focused on adding songs to respective dabs Petebutt Pharaoh of the Wizards Phorestry - Will work mostly on changing disambiguation links to more specific links. I would also like to yield the official dab-cleaning broom Pjposullivan Project Termina -- 2023-01-13 -- interested in reducing links to dab pages ponyo Poydoo Purplebackpack89 Qb42 User:QEDK Quarl QueenCake - Yeah sounds like something I can do. Quentin X Quiddity ReelAngelGirl - Mostly working on stuff like clearing this and whatever else I find. Reinyday rellmerr - Mostly working with WP:DPL, after fixing some of these types of links on my own since first joining WP. User:KorinoChikara Renesis - I've been fixing disambig pages on my own a little, so I'd like to join the project. renzoy16 - Will try to help on this WikiProject. Rhindle The Red I'm in. Rickyurs RideABicycle I didn't even know this was part of a group, but I've been "clarifying" (the term I have applied to the process of directing links to proper pages, not disambiguation pages) for a while (I recently cleared out Special:Whatlinkshere/Lake_Placid). I look forward to continuing my "clarification crusade" but as a member of WikiProject Disambiguation. Rjd0060 rkmlai Robocoder - count me in... RoySmith RSStockdale - been doing it for some time; just saw that there is a WP R'n'B Richard Michael William – fix disambiguation links Sahaib3005 joined 3rd October 2020 Samee SamWilson989 - mostly fixing links that shouldn't go to disambiguation pages. Missvain SCHZMO ✍ Sean Stephens – Frequently create disambiguation pages, mostly for primary topics in lengthy hatnotes have been used in place of one. Scott Davis I've been doing this for about 4 months. sgeureka I mainly go for dab pages marked for cleanup Shadow of the Starlit Sky ShelfSkewed Sheridan Shhhnotsoloud SHISHIR DUA Shruti14 Silence Sir Joseph SlackerMom Smack MarioJump83! SmileBlueJay97 Sarmad Speednat Spiderpig662 Squids and Chips Srice13 Steel1943 Steve Strummer – I prize clarity and concision. Stijn Vermeeren Sumsum2010 - I mainly fix periods that aren't supposed to be there Superk1a - I am addicted to fixing links to disambig pages. :D Suriel1981 - I like to contribute in a variety of ways and this is one of them. Swpb TAnthony - I'm in the process of using AWB to add the Project banner to all disambig talk pages which don't currently have them; 1000 down, 13,000 to go ;) TARDIS builder✉ Tatrgel Tbone762 Tedernst Tesscass Thaurisil The Banner The Banner Turbo The Chronic The Duke of Waltham – I have long enjoyed improving disambiguation pages, so I thought I'd make my involvement official. The Eternals The Interior The Rambling Man I started a while ago, but have rediscovered the joys of the task The1337gamer Theheadhunter TimBentley Tintin Sequel TKD I often try to clean up badly formatted disambiguation pages when I see them. Tkynerd Toddlertoddy TonyTheTiger Tolly4bolly Toshio Yamaguchi TRBP Trevor MacInnis UnitedStatesian Utopes Uvysdi Vicarious, I fancy myself a bit of an expert on disambig pages, but I'm exquisitely egotistical so I'm really not to be trusted on that. Vmavanti Vogel WaddlesJP13 Wahoofive Warhorus Weblogan Wpollard - I have inserted article names into disambiguation pages when I have found they did not appear there. Wil540_art Xnuala Yamara – Mostly in conjunction with disambig pages related to the Time or Biography Projects Skarmory (talk) - First WikiProject, I hope I'm doing this right. Zach425 Zeke Zzyxzaa26

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy, for pages related to the names of people
• Wikidata:Disambiguation pages task force
• Recent changes of disambiguation pages