Wiki143:WikiProject Disambiguation/Adopting disambiguation pages
Many new links to Wikipedia disambiguation pages are created every day. Many Wikipedians actively participate in the Disambiguation link repair project, tirelessly repairing these links. After a dab page has been cleaned of links from the main namespace, however, it is sometimes assumed that the problem has been resolved. Unfortunately, links accumulate like mushrooms when a dab page is left unattended. The problem is left for someone else to resolve at a later date, creating needless reduplication of time and effort.
An efficient means of resolving this problem is adopting a disambiguation page. This captures efficiencies, since Wikipedians build up a certain level of understanding of a given topic after a number of fixes, and thus are equipped to handle that page well.
Adoption is not ownership. You can tag-team adopt a really troublesome page, or merely help with the 'shroom cleanup on someone else's adopted page.
How to help
- Be bold. Adopt a page. Add your name onto a page that has already adopted, for tag-team mushroom eradication.
Adopted Pages
Feel free to add yourself and your adopted disambiguation pages in the table below. There are guidelines for disambiguation link repair on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links.
| Disambiguation page adopted | User Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Mile | NJJ.Rocher | Cleared as of 19 May 2008 |
| 00s, '20s, 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s | Paintspot | Cleared as of February 23, 2019. While 9 out of 11 aren't technically disambiguation pages but still quite often incorrectly linked to, when the 19X0s are meant instead. |
| Alien | AnnaFrance | Clean as of August 19 2008 |
| Alternative | Migospia | last edit June 14 2007 |
| Amazon | bd2412 | Checking weekly. |
| American | Oatmeal batman | last edit: January 5 2007 |
| Anonymous | AnnaFrance | Clean as of July 29 2008 |
| Bass | bd2412 | Checking weekly. |
| BDT | AnnaFrance | Clean as of August 1 2008 |
| Bie | Icarusgeek | Started January 14 2011.Only one article remains: Lake_Da. Does anybody know how I can find out who 'owns' the page? (as I can't edit it) |
| Boer War | Nzpcmad | Just started as of March 30 2007 |
| Britain | Steven J. Anderson, SteinbDJ | no links as of 2007-05-24 |
| British | Blake01 and Jeff3000 | no links as of 2008-04-13 |
| Caucasian | Arenlor | Went back over it. 2010-01-23 |
| Compression | Rwalker | Cleaned 107 links 2010-01-11 |
| Confederacy | AnnaFrance | Clean as of August 1, 2008 |
| Cuban | Spock of Vulcan | Clean as of 2011-02-15 |
| Danish | Tkynerd | last edit 10 December 2011 |
| Defender | Jeff3000 | no links as of 2009-07-16 |
| Duplication | Lenoxus | As of 2008-04-16: 1 mainspace link allowed: hatnote in Duplicate. 1 Wikipedia space link allowed: Outline of Roget's Thesaurus. 2 DABs: Copy, Double. |
| Effective dose | ConradMayhew | Clean as of December 10 2011 |
| English | Tkynerd, happy5214 | last edit 10 December 2011 |
| EP | bd2412 | Checking weekly. |
| Executive | AnnaFrance | Clean as of August 4 2008 |
| Expo | Icarusgeek | Starting tomorrow (23 Jan) - with about 30 articles |
| Fatigue | Nihiltres | no links as of 2007-10-31 |
| Fifty pence | Lenoxus | As of 2008-04-16, 2 DAB links allowed: Two pence, Threepence, Ten pence. |
| Finnish | Tkynerd | last edit 10 December 2011 |
| French | Spock of Vulcan | Clean as of 2011-02-15. The links that are left should stay, for the same reason as the German ones. |
| German | Spock of Vulcan | Clean as of 2011-02-15. I've left 6 mainspace links to German (disambiguation) (a redirect to German) because it seems like they really should be pointing to the disambig page. |
| Gothic | William Avery | 8 links requiring attention as of September 27 2008 |
| Iranian | Jeff3000 | last edit: November 4 2006 |
| Italian | WolfgangFaber | 0 links as of November 12 2006 |
| Japanese | Dekimasu | 0 links as of December 22 2014 |
| Keyboard | bd2412 | Checking weekly. |
| Khan | AnnaFrance | Clean as of August 8 2008 |
| Lebanese | Ithinkhelikesit | 0 links as of 2007-01-03 |
| LLC | bd2412 | Checking weekly. |
| LP | bd2412 | Checking weekly. |
| Massacre | AnnaFrance | Clean as of August 11 2008 |
| Nara | Ajstov | No links as of July 15 2011 |
| Newcastle | IcarusGeek | 2 tricky articles hanging around, plus they come back in daily January 2011 2010 |
| NHS | AnnaFrance | Clean as of August 9 2008 |
| Northwest | Tkynerd | last edit: 28 November 2011 |
| Norwegian | Tkynerd | last edit: 10 December 2011 |
| Old Trafford | Nzpcmad | No links as of March 14 2007 |
| Organ | Goochelaar | lots to do, just begun; last edit: January 27 2007 |
| Ottoman | TimBentley | 2 links as of December 8 2006 |
| Ottoman Turkish | TimBentley | 0 links as of December 8 2006 |
| Palm | Wjw0111 | Just started as of March 28 2008 |
| Passenger car | Tkynerd | last edit: 28 November 2011 |
| Penthouse | Emc2 | no links as of November 2 2006 |
| Persian | Jeff3000 | last edit: October 22 2006 |
| Phoenix | happy5214 | My birth city, clean as of January 12, 2011 |
| Prime mover | AnnaFrance | Clean as of August 13 2008 |
| PSP | HelmsC1978 | last edit: January 1 2007 |
| Romanesque | William Avery | Clean as of September 27 2008 |
| Runner | AnnaFrance | Clean as of August 15 2008 |
| Scottish | Finavon | last edit October 26, 2008 - lots of User pages remain |
| Seal | bd2412 | Checking weekly. |
| Selo | CarrieVS | Clean as of June 6 2012 |
| Sexuality | Mynameisnotpj | zero links as of May 19 2008 |
| Solna | Tkynerd | last edit: 28 November 2011 |
| Subway | Tkynerd | last edit: 10 December 2011 |
| Swedish | Tkynerd | last edit: 10 December 2011 |
| Terminal | Rwalker | last edit: January 11, 2010 - only User and otheruses links remain |
| Terrestrial | AnnaFrance | clean as of August 17, 2008 |
| Ting | Tkynerd | last edit: 2 December 2011 |
| Tom Jones | Badgernet | Clean as of October 13 2008 |
| Turk | TimBentley | 19 links as of December 8 2006 |
| Turntable | Tkynerd | last edit: No longer a dab page, redirects to Phonograph. I piped all incoming links in mainspace that didn't refer to phonographs.
3 December 2011 |
| Yugoslav | Biblbroks | 4 links as of October 5 2007 |
Pages for Adoption
You can find pages in need of adoption at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Current list or the below list: {{Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/problems}}
Case studies
Links can accumulate rapidly when no one is watching a page.
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French is a typical page for which adoption is useful. Its links were quickly depleted when listed on WP:DPL, but quickly rose to a high level by the next report.
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These articles provide an overview of how links can accumulate in a month or less. Note that it only took 11 days for links to German to accumulate to over 100.
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