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Disambiguation pages with links is a project that patrols the incoming links to disambiguation pages. These 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 famous people have the same name. Ideally, article namespace pages should not link to disambiguation pages, except when the ambiguity of a term is being discussed (as in hatnotes mentioning that a term has other meanings); instead, links should go directly to the appropriate article. 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.

Contents 1 How to help 2 Tools and reports 3 DAB Challenge leaderboard 4 Current disambiguation collaborations 5 Status and list parameters 6 December 2009 6.1 Progress 6.2 To do 6.3 Done

[edit] How to help

1. First, please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Disambiguation, which describes guidelines about how and when to disambiguate. Please also review the Manual of Style for disambiguation pages.
2. Next, choose a disambiguation page to fix from the list below. Visit the disambiguation page you have selected, and familiarize yourself with the possible targets for links.
3. Click on the What links here link in the "toolbox" on the left side of the screen.
4. For each page listed, visit the page. Change the link that goes to the disambiguation page to a link to the most appropriate article listed on the disambiguation page. The most important links to fix are those from articles in the Article and 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 talk page guidelines. It's okay for redirects to point to a disambiguation page, but articles pointing to these redirects need to be fixed.
5. To help people find this project, consider using an edit summary like the following:
   Repairing links to disambiguation pages - [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|You can help!]]
6. 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, leave a note on the talk page and let someone who has a better understanding of the subject fix it.
7. 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 notable and beneficial to the encyclopedia, consider creating a red link to a possible title. If the meaning is unlikely to merit enyclopedic coverage, you may wish to remove it or replace it with a link to Wiktionary, using the shortcut [[wikt:]].
8. If you fix all the main namespace links to that disambiguation page, please move it to the "Done" section.
9. Some pages gather links quickly and need to be monitored on an ongoing basis. Alternatively, you may have special knowledge or a special affection for the topic of a particular disambiguation page. For these reasons or any other, consider adopting a disambiguation page.
10. 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.
11. Once you become comfortable with the disambiguation process, you may wish to read this guide to help you disambiguate more efficiently.
12. {{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 the Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation logo in the title bar of your userpage. Using either of these adds you to Category:Wikipedians who help fix disambiguation pages with links.

[edit] Tools and reports

Several automated tools can be used to make disambiguation easier:

• AutoWikiBrowser is capable of mass disambiguation in semi-automatic mode. See the AWB user manual for details.
• Wikipedia Cleaner is a Java-based tool designed to aid in various maintenance tasks, including fixing ambiguous links.
• Solve disambiguation.py is a python bot script designed to help fix ambiguous links.
• Navigation popups can be used to fix ambiguous links with a single click if you have added the option "popupFixDabs=true;" to your monobook.js (or a similar file for other skins).

There are also several Toolserver reports generated by User:JaGa:

• Disambiguation pages with links - List of all disambiguation pages that are linked by articles. Updated daily.
• Disambiguation link count - Get the number of mainspace links to your favorite disambiguation page. Updated in real time.
• Articles with the most disambiguation links - List of all articles that link to multiple disambiguation pages. Updated daily.
• Disambiguation pages linked by an article - Look up all disambiguation pages linked from a single article. Updated in real time.
• Templates with disambiguation links - List of all templates that link to disambiguation pages - a quick way to identify and fix large numbers of disambiguation links with a single edit. Updated daily.

Other statistics and lists:

• The Daily Disambig, link statistics maintained by User:R'n'B, including a daily list of new disambiguation pages
• Maintenance, a list of problem pages arranged by topic, with historical statistics
• Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Dn, links which have been explicitly marked as "disambiguation needed"
• Special:Disambiguations, a special page listing links to dabs

[edit] DAB Challenge leaderboard

The Monthly DAB Challenge is a friendly competition to see who can fix the most links from the monthly list and earn their place in the 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 the project page.

1. Woohookitty		3856 fixed
2. R'n'B		2553 fixed
3. JaGa		1373 fixed
4. Josh Parris		1142 fixed
5. Fratrep		992 fixed
6. BD2412		821 fixed
7. JamesAM		820 fixed
8. Ulric1313		599 fixed
9. M-le-mot-dit		337 fixed
10. AndrewHowse		265 fixed
11. Fortdj33		226 fixed
12. YUL89YYZ		190 fixed
13. Jevansen		186 fixed
14. The-Pope		169 fixed
15. Tsange		164 fixed
16. Ekrubmj		163 fixed
17. Biglovinb		124 fixed
18. Neelix		111 fixed
19. Kubigula		105 fixed
20. Jujutacular		93 fixed

[edit] Current disambiguation collaborations

Please feel free to add new suggestions for collaborations here.

• Category links: I've updated the list of categories with ambiguous links using the data that Russ puts up every once in a while. I think this is worth a cleanup run, since we haven't finished a categories run in about two years. There are about 1600 ambiguous links at the moment. If you fix the links on a category page, simply delete the entry from the list. A certain percentage of the links are intentional and can be safely ignored; please move them to the section at the bottom of the page so other editors will know to skip them. Since there are only a few links to check for any given category page (it's broad and shallow), and we haven't had many collaborations up lately, this seems to me like an ideal topic. Dekimasuよ! 04:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Note: an intentional link to a disambiguation page named "page foo", should be piped through a redirect to "page foo (disambiguation)" so that these can easily be dismissed in future searches. bd2412 T 21:55, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Status and list parameters

Archived reports
2005: October, December 2006: March, May, July, September, November 2007: February, May, August, October 2008: March, July 2009: Feb, May, June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov

The list below shows the disambiguation pages in the English Wikipedia's 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 current list was generated from the toolserver report on November 30, 2009. Previous reports from the toolserver and database dumps are archived in the box to the right.

[edit] December 2009

[edit] Progress

From the top 500 disambiguation pages as of December 01, 2009, out of a total of 49,951 links, approximately 13,364 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 toolserver report 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

1. Kehilla: 219 links
2. Abuse: 174 links
3. Kasaragod: 173 links
4. Diversity: 170 links
5. Visualization: 162 links
6. Star (disambiguation): 126 links
7. Goshawk: 120 links
8. Underground culture: 119 links
9. Sexuality: 116 links
10. Church of God: 115 links
11. Minnow: 114 links
12. Imaging: 111 links
13. Pestilence: 111 links
14. Ukrainian Orthodox Church: 110 links
15. Papilla: 109 links
16. Textile mill: 109 links
17. Council: 108 links
18. Valencia: 108 links
19. World domination: 108 links
20. Energy consumption: 107 links
21. Portraiture: 106 links
22. White Pine: 106 links
23. Disciple: 104 links
24. Exposure: 104 links
25. Sindhi: 104 links
26. Trend: 104 links
27. Foramen: 103 links
28. Low Saxon: 103 links
29. Module: 102 links
30. Movement for Democratic Change: 102 links
31. Dogfish: 101 links
32. Eurasian: 101 links
33. Optimization: 101 links
34. Periodicity: 101 links
35. Hybrid: 100 links
36. Mapping: 100 links
37. Clinical: 99 links
38. Control: 99 links
39. Dynamics: 99 links
40. Identity: 99 links
41. Limburg: 99 links
42. Our Lady: 99 links
43. Precision: 99 links
44. Relativity: 99 links
45. Saint James: 99 links
46. Anaerobic: 98 links
47. Change: 98 links
48. Germanic mythology: 98 links
49. Mechanism: 98 links
50. Pore: 98 links
51. Seer: 98 links
52. 3D: 97 links
53. Aggregate: 97 links
54. Array: 97 links
55. Capacity: 97 links
56. Compression: 97 links
57. Interpretation: 97 links
58. Mononucleosis: 97 links
59. Myrtle: 97 links
60. N/A: 97 links
61. Pepper: 97 links
62. Purity: 97 links
63. Redwood: 97 links
64. St. Albans, Vermont: 97 links
65. Surplus: 97 links
66. Unitarian: 97 links
67. Vulnerable: 97 links
68. Yoruba: 97 links
69. Alliance: 96 links
70. Charterhouse: 96 links
71. Christian Brothers: 96 links
72. Complexity theory: 96 links
73. Corinthian: 96 links
74. Cyme: 96 links
75. Deva: 96 links
76. Devotion: 96 links
77. Holy Cross: 96 links
78. Holyrood: 96 links
79. Interface: 96 links
80. Law enforcement: 96 links
81. Linden: 96 links
82. Mannar: 96 links
83. Northern China: 96 links
84. Ordinance: 96 links
85. Press: 96 links
86. Quantum theory: 96 links
87. Saturation: 96 links
88. Set: 96 links
89. Sorceress: 96 links
90. Stakeholder: 96 links
91. Survey: 96 links
92. Activity: 95 links
93. Beja: 95 links
94. Cadence: 95 links
95. Cofactor: 95 links
96. Composition: 95 links
97. Continuum: 95 links
98. International studies: 95 links
99. Jesenice: 95 links
100. Journey: 95 links
101. Lockport, New York: 95 links
102. Marigold: 95 links
103. National Guard: 95 links
104. Platonic: 95 links
105. Porter: 95 links
106. Rally: 95 links
107. South China: 95 links
108. Transformation: 95 links
109. Treble: 95 links
110. Variation: 95 links
111. Vestibule: 95 links
112. Carmel: 94 links
113. Dispatch: 94 links
114. Douglas: 94 links
115. Edessa: 94 links
116. Involution: 94 links
117. James Davis: 94 links
118. Kamboja: 94 links
119. Los Alamos: 94 links
120. Nahua: 94 links
121. Normalization: 94 links
122. Richard Wright: 94 links
123. Sensitivity: 94 links
124. Temporal: 94 links
125. Trinity University: 94 links
126. Warrant: 94 links
127. Appointment: 93 links
128. Assessor: 93 links
129. Burgher: 93 links
130. Custom: 93 links
131. Evacuation: 93 links
132. John Waters: 93 links
133. Judaea: 93 links
134. Mixed marriage: 93 links
135. Partner: 93 links
136. Quantization: 93 links
137. Serial: 93 links
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139. Strasburg: 93 links
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141. Texture: 93 links
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143. Transcendence: 93 links
144. Warrior (disambiguation): 93 links
145. Zone: 93 links
146. AAU: 92 links
147. Attribute: 92 links
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149. Catholic University: 92 links
150. Charge: 92 links
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158. Maharaja Ranjit Singh: 92 links
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164. Palatinate: 92 links
165. Purse: 92 links
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167. San Diego Freeway: 92 links
168. Scion: 92 links
169. Single: 92 links
170. Slough (disambiguation): 92 links
171. Spectator: 92 links
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181. Bright Eyes: 91 links
182. Bubble: 91 links
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185. Catalog: 91 links
186. Civil law: 91 links
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226. Old Style (disambiguation): 90 links
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242. European Championship: 89 links
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250. New Paltz, New York: 89 links
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279. Fortune: 88 links
280. Homogeneity: 88 links
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283. Indo-Aryan: 88 links
284. Investigation: 88 links
285. Isolation: 88 links
286. Jive: 88 links
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288. Keystone: 88 links
289. Kirov: 88 links
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298. Private college: 88 links
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302. Rio Tinto: 88 links
303. Scribner: 88 links
304. Social Democratic Party: 88 links
305. Springer: 88 links
306. Steve Miller: 88 links
307. Strategic: 88 links
308. Style: 88 links
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310. Tension: 88 links
311. Tons: 88 links
312. Top gear (disambiguation): 88 links
313. Tuning: 88 links
314. Whig: 88 links
315. Yang: 88 links
316. Agreement: 87 links
317. Al-Ittihad: 87 links
318. Aster: 87 links
319. Bell: 87 links
320. Block: 87 links
321. Bundesland: 87 links
322. Carnegie Foundation: 87 links
323. Carrier: 87 links
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329. Credit: 87 links
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339. Habitus: 87 links
340. Jack Anderson: 87 links
341. Jubilee: 87 links
342. Juárez: 87 links
343. Law and Order: 87 links
344. Massacre: 87 links
345. Mastiff: 87 links
346. Michael Murphy: 87 links
347. Museum of Fine Arts: 87 links
348. Nasal: 87 links
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358. Robert Palmer: 87 links
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363. The Fugitive: 87 links
364. Wizard: 87 links
365. Xiangyang: 87 links
366. Acrylic: 86 links
367. Apology: 86 links
368. Bavarian: 86 links
369. Berar: 86 links
370. Bifurcation: 86 links
371. College of the City of New York: 86 links
372. Concession: 86 links
373. Debut: 86 links
374. Drake: 86 links
375. Driver: 86 links
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377. Germantown, Pennsylvania: 86 links
378. Haitian: 86 links
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380. Inhibitor: 86 links
381. Isometric: 86 links
382. JP: 86 links
383. Jacobin: 86 links
384. Legion: 86 links
385. Loyola: 86 links
386. Matamoros: 86 links
387. Medieval Croatian state: 86 links
388. Milling: 86 links
389. National Liberation Front: 86 links
390. Nursery: 86 links

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