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Disambiguations for discussion (Dfd) is a place wheredisambiguations for which one or more issues arise can be discussed.
Before opening a DfD debate, there are certain actions you can takeboldly without administrative assistance. If such a move is uncontroversial, (meaning that it does not get reverted if performed once), there is no need for a DfD debate. If it gets reverted, then a DfD debate can be opened.
Actions that can be taken without assistance include:
However, there are two kinds of actions that should never be undertaken without discussion:
A primary topic is the main meaning of a term with multiple meanings. For example, the primary meaning of the wordpillow isa large cushion support for the head or for the body. Any other meanings of the word pillow are found on the pagePillow (disambiguation).
For some words and names in which two or more meanings are pretty common, it may be difficult to determine a primary topic. An example is the wordsquash, which may refer to the plant (Squash (plant)) and the sport (Squash (sport)) as well as all of the less common meanings. When this is the case, it is generally the custom to use the plain title as the disambiguation page.
There are times when it is debateable whether to use a plain title for a primary topic or as a disambiguation page, or which meaning of a term should be the primary topic. Such debates can only be resolved through a discussion with an attempt to obtain a consensus.
There are various reasons for a disambiguation to be deleted or merged. Please be aware that any disambiguation that meetscriteria for speedy deletion can be speedy deleted accordingly.
A disambiguation is considered to have too few entries if the title used does not contain "(disambiguation)", and it lists nothing more than the primary topic and one other entry.
If there is a single meaning of a term other than that of theprimary topic, it should be entered onto the top of the primary topic's page as a hatnote.
If the page has an edit history that has versions significantly longer than the one proposed for deletion, it should be merged or redirected in order to keep older versions accessible in the event one wishes to improve upon it.
It is probably a good idea before nominating a disambiguation for deletion over having too few entries to see in the edit history if there is an older version with more entries. If so, it may be worth discussing if other entries that were removed belong or not, if this has not been done already.
Wikipedia is not a dictionary. If a disambiguation page contains nothing more than a series of dictionary entries for a term, it should be deleted on the basis of this guideline.
Two or more variations of a title with the same meaning can be merged when all entries are combined and the resulting single page is still short enough to all or mostly be seen on the same screen. They are considered variations for this guideline when there are:
Variations should NOT be merged when:
Articles for deletion
Proposed deletions
Redirects for discussion
Requested moves
Articles to be merged
Articles to be split
Articles for creation