Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links

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Disambiguation pages with links is a WikiProject that patrols the incoming links to disambiguation pages. Disambiguation pages exist to clarify confusion in which two or more similarly named articles exist – for example, if two famous people have the same name. Ideally, Wikipedia articles should not link to disambiguation pages (with rare exceptions in which the ambiguity of a term is being discussed); instead, links should go directly to the appropriate article.

This page lists disambiguation pages that do have incoming links. Most of these need to be fixed. This page functions in cooperation with WikiProject Disambiguation.

[edit] How to help

Sometimes, if all or most of the links refer to one meaning of the article name, it may make more sense to redirect the disambiguation page to that article, and perhaps set up a disambiguation block. See Wikipedia:Disambiguation for more details.

It may help to visit the disambiguation page but not the pages it links to, or clear your browser's cache after visiting them. That way, links to the disambiguation page will show up in a different colour (as visited links) and therefore be easier to pick out. Once you become comfortable with the disambiguation process, you may wish to read the Guide to Efficient Disambiguation.

Several automated tools can be used to make disambiguation easier:

{{Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Userbox}} can be placed on your userpage to show that you fix ambiguous links. Using this box adds you to Category:Wikipedians who help fix disambiguation pages with links.

This editor repairs links to disambi­guation pages - you can help!

You may also use {{Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Usertop}} which will display the project logo in the top bar of your userpage with a link to the project page (also adds you to the Category).

[edit] Current disambiguation collaborations

[edit] Status and list parameters

The list below shows disambiguation pages in the main English 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 main article namespace are counted (that is, pages with "Talk:", "User:", "Wikipedia:" and most other namespace prefixes are ignored).

It was generated from the database dump dated 2008-07-14.

Information on generating the report can be found at /Report.

Previous lists now exist at /2005-10-20 dump, /2005-12-13 dump, /2006-03-26 dump, /2006-05-18 dump, /2006-07-17 dump, /2006-09-06 dump, /2006-11-30 dump, /2007-02-06 dump, /2007-05-27 dump, /2007-08-02 dump, /2007-10-18 dump, /2008-03-12 dump.

[edit] 2008-07-14 database dump

[edit] Progress

From the July 14 database dump, out of a total of 136,071 links, approximately 90,102 have currently been fixed.

PLEASE READ BEFORE MAKING ANY EDITS: Kindly do not edit anything between the start of the line and the character string "|links]]". You may insert any additional information after this point. When an item is finished, please cut and paste it, without revision, to the end of the "Done" section. Thank you.

The link counts reflect the number of links from main namespace articles as of the dump date shown above. They are unlikely to be accurate at any later date; however, we keep the original count intact as a way of tracking our progress. Please do not change the link totals!

[edit] To do

[edit] Done