This help page is ahow-to guide. It explains concepts or processes used to patrol incoming links to disambiguation pages. It is not one ofWikipedia's policies or guidelines, and may reflect varying levels ofconsensus. |
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Disambiguation pages with links is a project thatpatrols the incoming links todisambiguation pages. Thesenon-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 thesame name. Ideally,article namespace pages should not link to disambiguation pages, except when the ambiguity of a term is being discussed (as inhatnotes 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 aredirect 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 toresidual, 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 thatdo have incoming links, most of which need to be fixed.
Repairing links to disambiguation pages – [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|You can help!]]{{dn}} template right after the link and let someone else fix it. Avoid attempting to disambiguate a link already tagged with[disambiguation needed] unless you have a good understanding of the subject area.[[wikt:]].{{Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Userbox}} can be placed on your user page to show that you fix ambiguous links. You may also use{{Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Usertop}}, which will display theWikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation logo in the title bar of your userpage. Using either of these adds you toCategory:Wikipedians who fix disambiguation pages with links.{{subst:Disambiguator's Barnstar}}.Software and tools to make disambiguation easier:
popupFixDabs=true; to yourjavascript config file.Reports byUser:JaGa:
Reports byUser:R'n'B:
Otherstatistics and lists:
TheMonthly DAB Challenge is a friendly competition to see who can fix the most links fromthe monthly list and earn a place in theDisambiguator 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, seethe project page.
This list was last updated October 27, 6:51 UTC.
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The list below shows the disambiguation pages in the English Wikipedia'sarticle 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.
Thecurrent list was generated from theToolforge report on October 1, 2025. Previous reports from the toolserver and database dumps are archived in the box to the right.
From thetop 1000 disambiguation pages as of September 30, 2025, out of a total of 7,570 links, approximately 6,274 have currently been fixed.
82.9% completed(estimate)
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