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'''Disambiguation pages with links''' is a project that [[Wikipedia:Patrols|patrols]] the incoming links to [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguation pages]]. These [[Wikipedia:What is an article?|non-article]] pages exist to clarify and ease confusion in cases where two or more similarly named articles exist—for example, if two or more notable people have the [[Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name|same name]]. Ideally, [[Wikipedia:Main namespace|article namespace]] pages should not link to disambiguation pages, except when the ambiguity of a term is being discussed (as in [[Wikipedia:Hatnote|hatnotes]] mentioning that a term has other meanings); instead, links should go directly to the appropriate article.

Where an article intentionally links to a disambiguation page, to make it explicit that the link is intentional, the link should be to a "Foo (disambiguation)" page, which may be a [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirect]] created for this purpose. Links from non-article namespaces are allowed, but still may need to be disambiguated. Redirects to disambiguation pages (e.g. [[residuals]] redirects to [[residual]], which is a disambiguation page) are not considered to be within the article namespace for purposes of this guideline.

This page lists the disambiguation pages that ''do'' have incoming links, most of which need to be fixed.

==How to help==
# First, please familiarize yourself with [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation]] (the guidelines about how and when to disambiguate, particularly [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Links to disambiguation pages|links to disambiguation pages]]), and with [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking|the manual of style on linking]]. If editing a disambiguation page, bear in mind [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages|the manual of style for disambiguation pages]].
# Next, choose a disambiguation page to fix from [[#Status and list parameters|the list below]]. Visit the disambiguation page you have selected, and familiarize yourself with the possible targets for links.
# Click on the [[Help:What links here|What links here]] link in the Tools section at the top-right of every page.
# For each page listed, visit the page. The most important pages to fix are those in the [[Wikipedia:Main namespace|Article]] and [[Wikipedia:Template namespace|Template]] namespaces. User pages and "Wikipedia:" administrative pages do not necessarily need to be fixed. Please avoid editing comments on "Talk:" pages; doing so is usually inadvisable per the [[Wikipedia:TPNO|talk page guidelines]]. It's okay for redirects to point to a disambiguation page, but articles linking to these redirects need to be fixed.
# Edit the link that goes to the disambiguation page to link to the most appropriate article listed on the disambiguation page. The [[Help:Pipe trick|pipe trick]] may save you some typing. Be careful to avoid introducing an [[WP:Easter egg|Easter egg link]] if the new target is not an obvious synonym for the displayed link. Bear in mind that the intended article might not always be listed on the disambiguation page, in these cases consider adding an [[WP:DABENTRY|entry]] for it.
# To help people find this project, consider using an edit summary like the following:<br/>''<code><nowiki>Repairing links to disambiguation pages – [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|You can help!]]</nowiki></code>''
# '''Please remember: it is more important to disambiguate correctly than to disambiguate quickly.''' Make sure you make the best choice; if you're not sure, place the <code>{{tl|dn}}</code> template right after the link and let someone else fix it. Avoid attempting to disambiguate a link already tagged with {{dn|nocat = true}} unless you have a good understanding of the subject area.
# Occasionally, links can simply be removed. Usually, a term should not be linked more than once in a single article or section. When the link refers to a meaning of the term for which there is ''no relevant article'', but you feel that such an article would be [[Wikipedia:Notability|notable]] and beneficial to the encyclopedia, consider creating a [[WP:Red link|red link]] to a possible title. If the meaning is unlikely to merit encyclopedic coverage, you may wish to remove it or replace it with a link to [[Wiktionary]], using the shortcut <code><nowiki>[[wikt:]]</nowiki></code>.
# If you fix all the main namespace links to that disambiguation page, please move it to the "[[#Done|Done]]" section.
# Some pages gather links quickly and need to be monitored on an ongoing basis. Alternatively, you may have special knowledge or a special predilection for the topic of a particular disambiguation page. For these reasons or any other, consider [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Adopting disambiguation pages|adopting]] a disambiguation page.
# If all or most of the links refer to one meaning of the article name, consider whether that article may actually be a suitable [[WP:PRIMARYTOPIC|primary topic]].
# Once you become comfortable with the disambiguation process, you may wish to read [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Guide|this guide]] to help you disambiguate more efficiently.
# <code>{{tlu|Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Userbox}}</code> can be placed on your user page to show that you fix ambiguous links. You may also use <code>{{tlu|Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Usertop}}</code>, which will display the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation]] logo in the title bar of your userpage. Using either of these adds you to [[:Category:Wikipedians who fix disambiguation pages with links]].
# Encourage other editors active in disambiguating by awarding them a <code>{{tls|Disambiguator's Barnstar}}</code>.

==Tools and reports==
'''Software and tools''' to make disambiguation easier:
*Links to disambiguation pages can be displayed in orange [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets|in the settings under "Gadgets"]] by checking "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange".
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* [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser|AutoWikiBrowser]] is capable of mass disambiguation in semi-automatic mode. See [[WP:AWB/UM#Disambig|the AWB user manual]] for details.
* [[WP:WPCleaner|WPCleaner]] is a Java-based tool designed to aid in various maintenance tasks, including fixing ambiguous links.
* [[Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups|Navigation popups]] can be used to fix ambiguous links with a single click if you have added the option <code>popupFixDabs=true;</code> to your [[Special:MyPage/skin.js|javascript config file]].
* [[User:Qwertyytrewqqwerty/DisamAssist|DisamAssist]] is a user script that can be used from a disambiguation page to fix ambiguous incoming links.
* [[:mw:Manual:Pywikibot/solve disambiguation.py|Solve_disambiguation.py]] (a component of [[:mw:Manual:Pywikibot|Pywikibot]]) is a command-line tool for solving links to a given disambiguation page.

'''Reports''' by [[User:JaGa]]:
:''Where applicable, each of these reports sets up "Fix" links to help one get started''
* [[toollabs:dplbot/latest_dabs.php|Today's Dablink Report]] – List of all dablinks created today. Updated daily.
* [[toollabs:dplbot/disambig_links.php|Disambiguation pages with links]] – List of all disambiguation pages that are linked by articles, by number of them. Updated daily.
* [[toollabs:dplbot/articles_with_dab_links.php|Articles with the most disambiguation links]] – List of all articles that link to multiple disambiguation pages, by number of outbound dablinks. Updated daily.
* [[toollabs:dplbot/templates_with_dab_links.php|Templates with disambiguation links]] – List of all templates that link to disambiguation pages. Updated daily.
* [[toollabs:dplbot/disambigs_in_an_article.php|Disambiguation pages linked by an article]] – Look up all disambiguation pages linked from a single article. Updates in real time.
* [[toollabs:dplbot/disambig_link_count.php|Disambiguation link count]] – Get the number of mainspace links to your favorite disambiguation page. Updates in real time.
* More available at [[toollabs:dplbot/|https://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/]]

'''Reports''' by [[User:R'n'B]]:
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Candidates for disambiguation by extending link|Candidates for disambiguation by extending link]] – new dab links for which adding the word occurring after the link would likely be the correct fix. Updated daily.
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Possible hatnote disambiguation links|Possible hatnote disambiguation links]] – new dab links occurring within the first hundred characters of the article. Updated daily.
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Potentially intentional dablinks|Potentially intentional dablinks]] – new dab links where the name of the article contains the name of the link. Updated weekly.

Other '''statistics and lists''':
*'''[[/The Daily Disambig|The Daily Disambig]]''', link statistics maintained by [[User:R'n'B]], plus lists of dablinks created, or cleared, today.
*[[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Disambiguation needed]], links that have been explicitly marked as "disambiguation needed".
**[[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Siadn]], links to [[WP:Set index articles|SIA]]s that have been explicitly marked as "disambiguation needed".

== DAB Challenge leaderboard ==
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The '''Monthly DAB Challenge''' is a friendly competition to see who can fix the most links from [//tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/ch/monthly_list.php the monthly list] and earn a place in the [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation_pages_with_links/Disambiguator_Hall_of_Fame|Disambiguator Hall of Fame]]. The leaderboard shows the top twenty contributors so far this month (with a minimum 10 article-to-disambig fixes), and is updated hourly. For more information, including the full leaderboard, see [//tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/ch/dab_challenge.php the project page].

{{User:JaGa/Short leaderboard}}

==Current disambiguation collaborations==
{{Shortcut|WP:CDC}}
Please feel free to add new suggestions for collaborations here.

* '''[//tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/templates_with_dab_links.php Templates with disambiguation links]''' – This is currently addressed with no templates listed. It would be nice if this continues! Thanks to all who have been dealing with these. [[User:Vegaswikian|Vegaswikian]] ([[User talk:Vegaswikian|talk]]) 23:02, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
* '''[[:Category:Pages with excessive dablinks|Articles with excessive dablinks]]''' A look at disambiguation from the point of view of articles instead of disambigs. This bot-maintained category is driven by the [//tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/articles_with_dab_links.php Articles with multiple dablinks report]. When we clear down the backlog, we'll lower the threshold defining "excessive". --[[User:JaGa|<b><span style="color:#990000;">Ja</span><span style="color:#000099;">Ga</span></b>]][[User_talk:JaGa|<span style="color:#000000; font-size:small;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 00:23, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
* '''[[:Category:Disambiguation pages with many incoming links|Disambiguation pages with many incoming links]]''' For those who enjoy a challenge, you can easily find the disambigs that have had lots of incoming links for a while. --[[User:JaGa|<b><span style="color:#990000;">Ja</span><span style="color:#000099;">Ga</span></b>]][[User_talk:JaGa|<span style="color:#000000; font-size:small;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 00:23, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
* '''[[:Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation from May 2025]]''', the oldest dated links tagged as needing disambiguation. The total count is currently {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Articles with links needing disambiguation from May 2025}}. Note: Update previous two categories at the same time.
:<small>(started by [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:gold;">'''''bd2412'''''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 00:43, 28 December 2013 (UTC); if this is a red link, please change to the next available month with links to be fixed)</small>

==Status and list parameters==
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The list below shows the disambiguation pages in the English Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Main namespace|article namespace]] to which there are the most links. For the purposes of this report, a disambiguation page is considered to be any article using one of the many disambiguation templates. Multiple links from a single article are counted only once. Only links from the article namespace are counted.

The [[/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}|current list]] was generated from the [http://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/disambig_links.php Toolforge report] on {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} 1, {{CURRENTYEAR}}. Previous reports from the toolserver and database dumps are archived in the box to the right.
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