This template is designed for use on disambiguation pages which only contain links to articles for airports having the same or similar names. It displays a notice on the page and includes it in Category:Airport disambiguation pages (a subcategory of Category:Disambiguation pages). It is similar in function to Template:Disambiguation which is used on general purpose disambiguation pages.
A disambiguation page which contains only airport names should only use Category:Airport disambiguation pages. This can be done by adding the following at bottom of page:
A disambiguation page containing both airport names and other entries should use
Category:Disambiguation pages, but it can also include
Category:Airport disambiguation pages.
This can be done by using the new category parameters of the {{
Disambiguation}}
template, as follows:
{{
Disambiguation|airport}}
That template supports up to 10 category parameters, so an existing disambiguation template can be updated by adding |airport
. For example, {{
Disambiguation|callsign}}
would become:
{{
Disambiguation|callsign|airport}}
The methods shown above sort the page within the category using either the page name or a key specified via {{
DEFAULTSORT}}
. If a different sort key is needed, the airport category can be added as follows:
{{
Disambiguation}}
{{
Airport disambiguation}}
{{
Disambiguation|airport}}
.{{
Disambiguation|airport|call sign}}
.{{
Disambiguation}}
for general disambiguation pages –
Category:Wikipedia disambiguation.{{
Call sign disambiguation}}
for radio stations –
Category:Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages{{
Geodis}}
for place names –
Category:Place name disambiguation pages{{
Hndis}}
for people's names –
Category:Human name disambiguation pages{{
Hospital disambiguation}}
for hospitals or medical centers –
Category:Hospital disambiguation pages{{
Mathematical disambiguation}}
for mathematics titles –
Category:Mathematics disambiguation pages{{
Mountainindex}}
for mountain names –
Category:Set index articles on mountains{{
Road disambiguation}}
for roads, streets, or highways –
Category:Road disambiguation pages{{
School disambiguation}}
for educational institutions –
Category:Educational institution disambiguation pages{{
Shipindex}}
for ship names –
Category:Set index articles on ships