Wikimedia maintenance project
This is a
WikiProject , an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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 .
Create and expand disambiguation pages.
Copy-edit disambiguation pages to 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/The Daily Disambig under control.
The dab-cleaning broom
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:
Create or move a disambiguation page
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 .
Add missing entries to a disambiguation page
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.
Find additional ambiguous terms for 2-DAB pages
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.
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 {{
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.
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 {{
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]]
Repair redirects
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 normally redirect to the disambiguation page or a section of it.
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
2024-05-09
Open Dabfix
Random cleanup
Finding disambiguation pages
Project watchlist
Templates
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 :
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:
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
Redirects , 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
User talk , for alerting editors to the dab guidelines
Userbox , for your own userpage
Barnstar , for awarding editors active in disambiguation
Categories
Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Subpages
Page views
Articles for deletion
Proposed deletions
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8 more ... )
Redirects for discussion
Miscellany for deletion
Requested moves
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23 more ... )
Articles to be merged
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8 more ... )
Articles to be split
See
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disambiguations
Project participants
All participants are worthy to wield the official dab-cleaning broom
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
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
Davey 2010 •
(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)
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
EW i kist
Talk
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
J e n o v a
20 - 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
Ł ittleÄ lien¹8 ²
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
SCH ZMO
✍
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
Shelf Skewed
Sheridan
Shhhnotsoloud
SHISHIR DUA
Shruti14
Silence
Sir Joseph
SlackerMom
Smack
Mario
Jump
83!
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 ;)
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
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