An
ambiguous title is an article title that applies to more than one topic described on Wikipedia. Sometimes one of those topics is considered the
primary topic for that ambiguous title, and the article for that use is placed at the plain base name title (e.g.,
Paris is an article about the capital city of France), or if another title is preferred for the article, the plain base name is made to redirect to the preferred title (e.g., Hurricane redirects to
Tropical cyclone). In other cases there is no primary topic, and a disambiguation page is placed at the title (e.g.,
Thriller is a disambiguation page). Normally the other non-primary uses are placed at titles that are disambiguated naturally (see
WP:NATURALDIS), or with a comma (e.g.,
Paris, Texas), or parenthetically (e.g.,
Mercury (planet)). Sometimes titles with a commonly used qualifier remain at least somewhat ambiguous. For example, there are 9 different albums and an
EP named Thriller that are discussed on Wikipedia, so the name
Thriller (album) is somewhat ambiguous. Some editors call these partially disambiguated titles (PDABs), or incompletely disambiguated titles (
WP:INCDAB or
WP:INCOMPDAB).
The main question about PDABs is whether a PDAB itself can have a primary topic. In the example of
Thriller (album), there is one album that is very well known and is considered much more highly notable than the others.
A
request for comments concluded on 3 September 2019 that PDABs can have primary topics, but that "the standard for making disambiguated titles such as Foo (bar) a primary topic among all Foo's that are bars should be tougher than the standard for titles that don't have any disambiguator".
The Wikipedia guideline section known as
WP:INCDAB or
WP:INCOMPDAB was modified to reflect this.
WP:INCDAB was previously less specific about this issue. For example, as of December 2017, it said only that "When a more specific title is still ambiguous, but not enough so to call for double disambiguation, it should
redirect back to the main disambiguation page (or a section of it). This aids navigation, and helps editors to avoid creating new articles under the ambiguous title by accident. Such redirects should be marked with {{
R from incomplete disambiguation}}."
Further back in time, there was a period of a few months in 2013 when the wording of the guidelines included a stronger discouragement of PDABs having primary topics – e.g., at one point it directly said that "Only non-disambiguated terms are eligible to have primary topics."
Central to disagreements about PDABs is whether the principle of
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC applies to incompletely disambiguated titles. The quintessential example is whether
Thriller (album) should lead to
the Michael Jackson album named Thriller or to the disambiguation page at
Thriller. As of this writing, it is an article about the Michael Jackson album, which some editors say indicates that the album is recognized by the community to be the primary topic for the term "Thriller (album)". There is also the point that any phrase which can be the title of a dab page could also be a potential candidate for having a primary topic, and does have a primary topic if one of the uses on that page meets the
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC criteria for that title relative to the other uses on that page. Others feel that since the
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC section does not specifically reference incompletely disambiguated titles like
Thriller (album), the concept of "primary topic" doesn't apply to such titles, and so the Michael Jackson album cannot be said to be a proper "primary topic" for this term.
The fundamental question is whether a given PDAB title should be used as the title of an article (or should be a redirect to one specific article) in cases where there is one topic that is arguably the "primary topic" for the PDAB title. If
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC does not apply to PDABs, how do we decide whether a PDAB title in question should be the title of a specific article (or a redirect to such an article) or a disambiguation page (or a redirect to a disambiguation page)?
Additionally, following a
Request for Comment discussion, it was
concluded in June 2016 that PDABs should sometimes be used for song and album articles when there are no other standalone articles sharing the same song or album name.
Original version of the former guideline (May 22, 2013)
Partially disambiguated titles:
Only non-disambiguated terms are eligible to have primary topics. Parenthetically disambiguated titles that remain ambiguous are not considered to have a primary topic on Wikipedia. For example,
Party (album) can refer to
Party (Iggy Pop album),
Party (Nick Swardson album), and
Party (Pet Shop Boys album), therefore
Party (album) redirects to
Party (disambiguation); neither article should be considered the primary topic for "Party (album)" because that title employs parenthetical disambiguation. While a partially disambiguated term should not serve as the title of an article, it can redirect to an article in cases when such redirection does not introduce additional ambiguity. For example,
New York (city) redirects to
New York City, which is only one of several cities called "New York"; however, the term "
New York City" does not employ parenthetical disambiguation and that title can itself refer to all the other cities called "New York" as well, therefore no additional ambiguity is introduced by
New York (city) redirecting there.[1]
Final version of the former guideline (September 18, 2013)
The following is a manually updated list of article titles with parenthetical partial disambiguation on the English language Wikipedia. Cases where there is no other standalone article involved in the ambiguity are treated in separate subsections at the end of this section.
Jane Seymour (actress) (an English-American actress) – also
Jane Seymour (Canadian actress) (second actress identified as Canadian although most of her life and all of her career were in the U.S., RM discussion closed as not moved 24 January 2023, more than 100:1 pageview ratio)
Robert Shaw (actor), a British actor – also
Robert Gottschall, a relatively obscure American actor who was sometimes, although not consistently, called Robert Shaw (RM closed as moved to the PDAB title 23 August 2017 noting the obscurity and inconsistent crediting of the American actor, proposal to move to simply Robert Shaw failed 6 May 2021 due to lack of clearly greater notability than all the 33 other Robert Shaw topics combined, pageview ratio more than 500:1)
Born This Way (album) (by Lady Gaga) – also
Born This Way (Cookie Crew album) and Born This Way: The Remix (a Lady Gaga remix album) and Born This Way: The Collection (a Lady Gaga compilation containing Born This Way and The Remix) (PDAB aspect not discussed in prior RMs, which have been about whether disambiguation is needed at all for the album, 4:1 pageview ratio relative to the other three albums combined, two of which are arguably only partial title matches based on the other album of the same artist)
Thriller (album) (by Michael Jackson) – also eight other albums and one
EP named Thriller (and an album named Thr!!!er) listed at
Thriller § Music (RM closed as moved to the PDAB title 13 November 2019 after seven RM discussions that were all about whether partial disambiguation was preferred or not; 92:1 pageview ratio over the sum of all other albums with exact title matches)
Per
WP:NCBC, current radio stations are considered the primary topic over former ones with the same callsign, resulting in partial disambiguation when an AM radio station callsign is ambiguous with non-radio topics or FM radio stations.
KOLT (AM) (current radio station in Terrytown, Nebraska) – also
KOLT (1320 AM) (defunct radio station in Scottsbluff, Nebraska)
WAYS (AM) (current radio station in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) – also
WAYS (1500 AM) (defunct radio station in Macon, Georgia) and
WFNZ (AM) (current radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina that previously held the callsign WAYS)
WCHI (AM) (current radio station in Chillicothe, Ohio) – also
WCHI (1490 AM) (defunct radion station in Chicago, Illinois)
WLEE (AM) (current radio station in Winona, Mississippi) – also
WLEE (1480 AM) (defunct radio station in Richmond, Virginia) and two other defunct radio stations that previously held the callsign WLEE
WZUM (AM) (current radio station in Pittsburgh, Pensylvania) – also
WZUM (1590 AM) (defunct radio station in Carnegie, Pennsylvania)
Exodus (band) (an American band) – see also
Exodus (Polish band) (more than 100:1 pageview ratio; RM closed as moved to the partially disambiguated name 20 October 2022)
Free (band) (an English band) – three other bands with similar or identical names at
Free (disambiguation) (more than 10:1 pageview ratio over the others combined, which are primarily known by somewhat different names, RM closed as not moved 16 August 2022)
Genesis (band) (an English band) – also
Génesis (band) and the original name of
Vixen (band) (the accent is a distinguishing feature, and Vixen may not have been notable when they were called Genesis, 440:1 pageview ratio between the non-accented and accented bands)
Jet (band) (an Australian band) – also
Jet (British band) (RM closed as moved to the partially disambiguated name 17 February 2024)
Kiss (band) (an American band) – also
Kiss (South Korean group) (RM closed as not moved 13 January 2016, the South Korean group was not exactly a band, 85:1 pageview ratio)
Lisa (South Korean singer) (born 1980) – also
Lisa (rapper) (born 1997), a Thai rapper and singer who is a member of a South Korean girl group (RM closed as no consensus 14 March 2024)
Nirvana (band) (an American band) – also
Nirvana (British band) and
Nirvana 2002 (RM closed as not moved 15 May 2013 and again 6 November 2018, 53:1 pageview ratio relative to the other two combined)
Oasis (band) (a 1990s English band) – also
Oasis (American band) and
Oasis (1980s band) (another English band) (no discussion of the PDAB issue is evident, more than 100:1 pageview ratio versus the other two combined)
Rosé (singer) (a Korean-New Zealand singer, born 1997) – also
Rosé (drag queen) (a Scottish-American drag queen, born 1989), who is also a singer (RM closed as not moved 6 June 2024, 15:1 pageview ratio)
Socks (cat) (a pet of the Clinton family) – also the protagonist of
Socks (novel), the short name of the cat
Sockington, and a prominent
Blue Peter pet, RM closed as no consensus on 13 January 2024 (pageview ratio about 7:1 relative to those other three combined)
Joe Smith (pitcher), a 2010s Major League pitcher – also
Joe Smith (1910s pitcher), who played five games in the Negro leagues (RM closed as not moved 23 November 2021, 310:1 pageview ratio)
Please note the guideline
WP:PRIMARYFILM, which discourages the use of partial disambiguation for film articles.
2012 (film) (a 2009 American film directed by Roland Emmerich) – five other films listed at
2012 (disambiguation) § Film (~99:1 pageview ratio relative to the four other films with articles combined)
Minecraft (film) (a 2025 American film directed by Jared Hess) – also Minecraft: The Story of Mojang (a 2012 film directed by Paul Owens) (RM closed as not moved 22 March 2024, ~48:1 pageview ratio)
Vertigo (film) (a 1958 American film directed by Alfred Hitchcock) – four other films listed at
Vertigo (disambiguation) § Film (RM closed as not moved 11 October 2023, 480:1 pageview ratio relative to the other four films combined)
Wish (film) (a 2023 American film directed by Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn) – also
Hope (2013 film) (a South Korean film directed by Lee Joon-ik), which was also known as Wish (RM closed as not moved 8 June 2024, ~23:1 pageview ratio)
"Shattered" (song) (by the Rolling Stones) – also
"Shattered (Turn the Car Around)" (by O.A.R.) and five other songs listed at
Shattered (RM discussion closed 24 January 2019 with no consensus to move, noting that the other song with an article is not an exact match for its complete title, 2:1 pageview ratio between the two song articles)
Cops (TV program) (a 1989 American documentary series) – also
COPS (animated TV series) (a 1988 American series) and three other TV series with slightly different names at
Cop § Television (RM closed as no consensus 6 October 2015 and not moved 13 February 2018)
The Boys (TV series) (a 2019 American superhero series) – also
The Boys (1993 TV series) (an American sitcom) (RM closed as moved to the PDAB title 24 January 2022; 120:1 pageview ratio)
Vikings (TV series) (a 2013 Canadian historical drama series) – also
Vikings (2012 TV series) (a British documentary series) (RM closed as moved to the PDAB 19 March 2022, 100:1 pageview ratio)
Newport, Wales (a city in Wales) and
Newport, Pembrokeshire (a town in Wales) (RM closed as moved to the PDAB title from bare
Newport 27 February 2014, a subsequent RM reverted an undiscussed move 26 December 2018. This name was used partly due to the fact that a suitable alternative qualifier, such as
Newport, Gwent or
Newport, South Wales, was problematic. 12:1 pageview ratio.)
Fleet, Hampshire (in Hart) and
Fleet, Hayling Island (which is also in Hampshire) (RM closed as no consensus 8 September 2019, more than 100:1 pageview ratio)
Tunstall, Staffordshire (in Stoke-on-Trent) and
Tunstall, Stafford (which also in Staffordshire) (RM closed as no consensus 8 September 2019, both infrequently read topics, 37:1 pageview ratio)
Canada and United States page names
860 partially-disambiguated titles of US and Canada municipalities exist in the format Municipality, State when other articles in the format Municipality, County, State also exist. The following is a list of those partially-disambiguated articles whose titles have been the subject of an RM:
Mike Johnson (Louisiana politician) (speaker of the United States House of Representatives) – also
Michael T. Johnson (member of the Louisiana House of Representatives) (PDAB aspect not discussed in prior RMs, which most recently found a lack of consensus to move to the more-ambiguous
Mike Johnson (politician) 25 December 2023)
Album and song articles with no other standalone article
Following a
Request for Comment discussion, it was
concluded in June 2016 that when a song or album is the only song or album that has a standalone article on Wikipedia, but other songs or albums of the same name are listed on the disambiguation page for that name per
MOS:DABMENTION, the article title of the song or album that has a standalone article should not include the artist name. This conclusion has since been included in a footnote of the guideline at
WP:ALBUMDAB.
The following is a manually updated list of such instances:
"It's Time" (song) (by Imagine Dragons) – five other songs listed at
It's Time (disambiguation) § Songs, including the most popular song on an Elvis Costello album (RM closed as moved to the PDAB title on 28 July 2016)
Afterglow (band) (an American band) – also a fictional band called Afterglow in the BanG Dream! franchise and a similarly named Italian band called
The Afterglow
Eagles (band) (an American band) – also a fictional band called Eagles in
Love Forever (film) and a similarly named American group
The Eagles (rhythm and blues group) and a similarly named UK group
The Eagles (British band) (the only other one that is an exact title match being barely mentioned and not having an article, PDAB aspect not discussed in prior RMs in April 2010, March 2013 and January 2017 which moved it from the base name
Eagles to the current title)
Rustin (film) (a 2023 American film directed by George C. Wolfe) – also a 2001 American film directed by
Rick Johnson (quarterback) (the other film is only a subtopic and doesn't seem very notable, although some famous people were involved in it) (RM closed as moved to the PDAB name 23 October 2022)
The Outsiders (film) (a 1983 American film directed by Francis Ford Coppola) – also a 1998 British film directed by Tony Davies
Other articles with no other standalone article
Asuka (wrestler) (Japanese professional wrestler born in 1981) – also
Veny (also a Japanese professional wrestler, formerly under the name of Asuka) and
Lioness Asuka (also a Japanese professional wrestler) (10:1 pageview ratio between the top two, RM closed as not moved 15 April 2023, a subsequent RM proposing moving to
Asuka closed as not moved 20 October 2023)
Richard Parker (mutineer), an English sailor executed in 1797 – also a character in the 1838 Edgar Allan Poe novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (it is possible that Poe based his character on the historical person, but no reliable source has been found that offers an opinion on that; Poe character not noticed in RM discussion closed 19 April 2021)
Xu Bin (footballer) – another footballer with the same name was among the top scorers in
2020 China League Two (RM closed as moved to the PDAB name 19 March 2024)
The following is a manually updated list of
WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT article redirects with parenthetical partial disambiguation on the English language Wikipedia.
n (year) – redirects to AD n – see also n BC (where n is a non-primary topic year number – see
WP:YEARDAB. Instances of n include the integers 1–150, 311, 360, 365, 383, 404, 411, 420, 442, 500, 666 and 747.)
Partially disambiguated article titles detected but not yet studied
These two tables contain a list of cases where one title has a partial qualifier which is a prefix or suffix of one or more other title's full qualifier. For the example of "John Doe (footballer)", the first table might pair him with "John Doe (footballer, born 1987)" and the second with "John Doe (Irish footballer)". False positives have been filtered out by automated elimination of set indices etc. and by manual checking, but some may remain. The correct course of action is not obvious and varies between cases. Some partial qualifiers should be made more precise, with the partially qualified name becoming a new dab or a redirect to an existing dab; other cases may be moved to the lists above once they have been studied. There should be no overlap between the tables, but some cases in the prefix table may also have undetected matches of the suffix kind.
An
ambiguous title is an article title that applies to more than one topic described on Wikipedia. Sometimes one of those topics is considered the
primary topic for that ambiguous title, and the article for that use is placed at the plain base name title (e.g.,
Paris is an article about the capital city of France), or if another title is preferred for the article, the plain base name is made to redirect to the preferred title (e.g., Hurricane redirects to
Tropical cyclone). In other cases there is no primary topic, and a disambiguation page is placed at the title (e.g.,
Thriller is a disambiguation page). Normally the other non-primary uses are placed at titles that are disambiguated naturally (see
WP:NATURALDIS), or with a comma (e.g.,
Paris, Texas), or parenthetically (e.g.,
Mercury (planet)). Sometimes titles with a commonly used qualifier remain at least somewhat ambiguous. For example, there are 9 different albums and an
EP named Thriller that are discussed on Wikipedia, so the name
Thriller (album) is somewhat ambiguous. Some editors call these partially disambiguated titles (PDABs), or incompletely disambiguated titles (
WP:INCDAB or
WP:INCOMPDAB).
The main question about PDABs is whether a PDAB itself can have a primary topic. In the example of
Thriller (album), there is one album that is very well known and is considered much more highly notable than the others.
A
request for comments concluded on 3 September 2019 that PDABs can have primary topics, but that "the standard for making disambiguated titles such as Foo (bar) a primary topic among all Foo's that are bars should be tougher than the standard for titles that don't have any disambiguator".
The Wikipedia guideline section known as
WP:INCDAB or
WP:INCOMPDAB was modified to reflect this.
WP:INCDAB was previously less specific about this issue. For example, as of December 2017, it said only that "When a more specific title is still ambiguous, but not enough so to call for double disambiguation, it should
redirect back to the main disambiguation page (or a section of it). This aids navigation, and helps editors to avoid creating new articles under the ambiguous title by accident. Such redirects should be marked with {{
R from incomplete disambiguation}}."
Further back in time, there was a period of a few months in 2013 when the wording of the guidelines included a stronger discouragement of PDABs having primary topics – e.g., at one point it directly said that "Only non-disambiguated terms are eligible to have primary topics."
Central to disagreements about PDABs is whether the principle of
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC applies to incompletely disambiguated titles. The quintessential example is whether
Thriller (album) should lead to
the Michael Jackson album named Thriller or to the disambiguation page at
Thriller. As of this writing, it is an article about the Michael Jackson album, which some editors say indicates that the album is recognized by the community to be the primary topic for the term "Thriller (album)". There is also the point that any phrase which can be the title of a dab page could also be a potential candidate for having a primary topic, and does have a primary topic if one of the uses on that page meets the
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC criteria for that title relative to the other uses on that page. Others feel that since the
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC section does not specifically reference incompletely disambiguated titles like
Thriller (album), the concept of "primary topic" doesn't apply to such titles, and so the Michael Jackson album cannot be said to be a proper "primary topic" for this term.
The fundamental question is whether a given PDAB title should be used as the title of an article (or should be a redirect to one specific article) in cases where there is one topic that is arguably the "primary topic" for the PDAB title. If
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC does not apply to PDABs, how do we decide whether a PDAB title in question should be the title of a specific article (or a redirect to such an article) or a disambiguation page (or a redirect to a disambiguation page)?
Additionally, following a
Request for Comment discussion, it was
concluded in June 2016 that PDABs should sometimes be used for song and album articles when there are no other standalone articles sharing the same song or album name.
Original version of the former guideline (May 22, 2013)
Partially disambiguated titles:
Only non-disambiguated terms are eligible to have primary topics. Parenthetically disambiguated titles that remain ambiguous are not considered to have a primary topic on Wikipedia. For example,
Party (album) can refer to
Party (Iggy Pop album),
Party (Nick Swardson album), and
Party (Pet Shop Boys album), therefore
Party (album) redirects to
Party (disambiguation); neither article should be considered the primary topic for "Party (album)" because that title employs parenthetical disambiguation. While a partially disambiguated term should not serve as the title of an article, it can redirect to an article in cases when such redirection does not introduce additional ambiguity. For example,
New York (city) redirects to
New York City, which is only one of several cities called "New York"; however, the term "
New York City" does not employ parenthetical disambiguation and that title can itself refer to all the other cities called "New York" as well, therefore no additional ambiguity is introduced by
New York (city) redirecting there.[1]
Final version of the former guideline (September 18, 2013)
The following is a manually updated list of article titles with parenthetical partial disambiguation on the English language Wikipedia. Cases where there is no other standalone article involved in the ambiguity are treated in separate subsections at the end of this section.
Jane Seymour (actress) (an English-American actress) – also
Jane Seymour (Canadian actress) (second actress identified as Canadian although most of her life and all of her career were in the U.S., RM discussion closed as not moved 24 January 2023, more than 100:1 pageview ratio)
Robert Shaw (actor), a British actor – also
Robert Gottschall, a relatively obscure American actor who was sometimes, although not consistently, called Robert Shaw (RM closed as moved to the PDAB title 23 August 2017 noting the obscurity and inconsistent crediting of the American actor, proposal to move to simply Robert Shaw failed 6 May 2021 due to lack of clearly greater notability than all the 33 other Robert Shaw topics combined, pageview ratio more than 500:1)
Born This Way (album) (by Lady Gaga) – also
Born This Way (Cookie Crew album) and Born This Way: The Remix (a Lady Gaga remix album) and Born This Way: The Collection (a Lady Gaga compilation containing Born This Way and The Remix) (PDAB aspect not discussed in prior RMs, which have been about whether disambiguation is needed at all for the album, 4:1 pageview ratio relative to the other three albums combined, two of which are arguably only partial title matches based on the other album of the same artist)
Thriller (album) (by Michael Jackson) – also eight other albums and one
EP named Thriller (and an album named Thr!!!er) listed at
Thriller § Music (RM closed as moved to the PDAB title 13 November 2019 after seven RM discussions that were all about whether partial disambiguation was preferred or not; 92:1 pageview ratio over the sum of all other albums with exact title matches)
Per
WP:NCBC, current radio stations are considered the primary topic over former ones with the same callsign, resulting in partial disambiguation when an AM radio station callsign is ambiguous with non-radio topics or FM radio stations.
KOLT (AM) (current radio station in Terrytown, Nebraska) – also
KOLT (1320 AM) (defunct radio station in Scottsbluff, Nebraska)
WAYS (AM) (current radio station in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) – also
WAYS (1500 AM) (defunct radio station in Macon, Georgia) and
WFNZ (AM) (current radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina that previously held the callsign WAYS)
WCHI (AM) (current radio station in Chillicothe, Ohio) – also
WCHI (1490 AM) (defunct radion station in Chicago, Illinois)
WLEE (AM) (current radio station in Winona, Mississippi) – also
WLEE (1480 AM) (defunct radio station in Richmond, Virginia) and two other defunct radio stations that previously held the callsign WLEE
WZUM (AM) (current radio station in Pittsburgh, Pensylvania) – also
WZUM (1590 AM) (defunct radio station in Carnegie, Pennsylvania)
Exodus (band) (an American band) – see also
Exodus (Polish band) (more than 100:1 pageview ratio; RM closed as moved to the partially disambiguated name 20 October 2022)
Free (band) (an English band) – three other bands with similar or identical names at
Free (disambiguation) (more than 10:1 pageview ratio over the others combined, which are primarily known by somewhat different names, RM closed as not moved 16 August 2022)
Genesis (band) (an English band) – also
Génesis (band) and the original name of
Vixen (band) (the accent is a distinguishing feature, and Vixen may not have been notable when they were called Genesis, 440:1 pageview ratio between the non-accented and accented bands)
Jet (band) (an Australian band) – also
Jet (British band) (RM closed as moved to the partially disambiguated name 17 February 2024)
Kiss (band) (an American band) – also
Kiss (South Korean group) (RM closed as not moved 13 January 2016, the South Korean group was not exactly a band, 85:1 pageview ratio)
Lisa (South Korean singer) (born 1980) – also
Lisa (rapper) (born 1997), a Thai rapper and singer who is a member of a South Korean girl group (RM closed as no consensus 14 March 2024)
Nirvana (band) (an American band) – also
Nirvana (British band) and
Nirvana 2002 (RM closed as not moved 15 May 2013 and again 6 November 2018, 53:1 pageview ratio relative to the other two combined)
Oasis (band) (a 1990s English band) – also
Oasis (American band) and
Oasis (1980s band) (another English band) (no discussion of the PDAB issue is evident, more than 100:1 pageview ratio versus the other two combined)
Rosé (singer) (a Korean-New Zealand singer, born 1997) – also
Rosé (drag queen) (a Scottish-American drag queen, born 1989), who is also a singer (RM closed as not moved 6 June 2024, 15:1 pageview ratio)
Socks (cat) (a pet of the Clinton family) – also the protagonist of
Socks (novel), the short name of the cat
Sockington, and a prominent
Blue Peter pet, RM closed as no consensus on 13 January 2024 (pageview ratio about 7:1 relative to those other three combined)
Joe Smith (pitcher), a 2010s Major League pitcher – also
Joe Smith (1910s pitcher), who played five games in the Negro leagues (RM closed as not moved 23 November 2021, 310:1 pageview ratio)
Please note the guideline
WP:PRIMARYFILM, which discourages the use of partial disambiguation for film articles.
2012 (film) (a 2009 American film directed by Roland Emmerich) – five other films listed at
2012 (disambiguation) § Film (~99:1 pageview ratio relative to the four other films with articles combined)
Minecraft (film) (a 2025 American film directed by Jared Hess) – also Minecraft: The Story of Mojang (a 2012 film directed by Paul Owens) (RM closed as not moved 22 March 2024, ~48:1 pageview ratio)
Vertigo (film) (a 1958 American film directed by Alfred Hitchcock) – four other films listed at
Vertigo (disambiguation) § Film (RM closed as not moved 11 October 2023, 480:1 pageview ratio relative to the other four films combined)
Wish (film) (a 2023 American film directed by Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn) – also
Hope (2013 film) (a South Korean film directed by Lee Joon-ik), which was also known as Wish (RM closed as not moved 8 June 2024, ~23:1 pageview ratio)
"Shattered" (song) (by the Rolling Stones) – also
"Shattered (Turn the Car Around)" (by O.A.R.) and five other songs listed at
Shattered (RM discussion closed 24 January 2019 with no consensus to move, noting that the other song with an article is not an exact match for its complete title, 2:1 pageview ratio between the two song articles)
Cops (TV program) (a 1989 American documentary series) – also
COPS (animated TV series) (a 1988 American series) and three other TV series with slightly different names at
Cop § Television (RM closed as no consensus 6 October 2015 and not moved 13 February 2018)
The Boys (TV series) (a 2019 American superhero series) – also
The Boys (1993 TV series) (an American sitcom) (RM closed as moved to the PDAB title 24 January 2022; 120:1 pageview ratio)
Vikings (TV series) (a 2013 Canadian historical drama series) – also
Vikings (2012 TV series) (a British documentary series) (RM closed as moved to the PDAB 19 March 2022, 100:1 pageview ratio)
Newport, Wales (a city in Wales) and
Newport, Pembrokeshire (a town in Wales) (RM closed as moved to the PDAB title from bare
Newport 27 February 2014, a subsequent RM reverted an undiscussed move 26 December 2018. This name was used partly due to the fact that a suitable alternative qualifier, such as
Newport, Gwent or
Newport, South Wales, was problematic. 12:1 pageview ratio.)
Fleet, Hampshire (in Hart) and
Fleet, Hayling Island (which is also in Hampshire) (RM closed as no consensus 8 September 2019, more than 100:1 pageview ratio)
Tunstall, Staffordshire (in Stoke-on-Trent) and
Tunstall, Stafford (which also in Staffordshire) (RM closed as no consensus 8 September 2019, both infrequently read topics, 37:1 pageview ratio)
Canada and United States page names
860 partially-disambiguated titles of US and Canada municipalities exist in the format Municipality, State when other articles in the format Municipality, County, State also exist. The following is a list of those partially-disambiguated articles whose titles have been the subject of an RM:
Mike Johnson (Louisiana politician) (speaker of the United States House of Representatives) – also
Michael T. Johnson (member of the Louisiana House of Representatives) (PDAB aspect not discussed in prior RMs, which most recently found a lack of consensus to move to the more-ambiguous
Mike Johnson (politician) 25 December 2023)
Album and song articles with no other standalone article
Following a
Request for Comment discussion, it was
concluded in June 2016 that when a song or album is the only song or album that has a standalone article on Wikipedia, but other songs or albums of the same name are listed on the disambiguation page for that name per
MOS:DABMENTION, the article title of the song or album that has a standalone article should not include the artist name. This conclusion has since been included in a footnote of the guideline at
WP:ALBUMDAB.
The following is a manually updated list of such instances:
"It's Time" (song) (by Imagine Dragons) – five other songs listed at
It's Time (disambiguation) § Songs, including the most popular song on an Elvis Costello album (RM closed as moved to the PDAB title on 28 July 2016)
Afterglow (band) (an American band) – also a fictional band called Afterglow in the BanG Dream! franchise and a similarly named Italian band called
The Afterglow
Eagles (band) (an American band) – also a fictional band called Eagles in
Love Forever (film) and a similarly named American group
The Eagles (rhythm and blues group) and a similarly named UK group
The Eagles (British band) (the only other one that is an exact title match being barely mentioned and not having an article, PDAB aspect not discussed in prior RMs in April 2010, March 2013 and January 2017 which moved it from the base name
Eagles to the current title)
Rustin (film) (a 2023 American film directed by George C. Wolfe) – also a 2001 American film directed by
Rick Johnson (quarterback) (the other film is only a subtopic and doesn't seem very notable, although some famous people were involved in it) (RM closed as moved to the PDAB name 23 October 2022)
The Outsiders (film) (a 1983 American film directed by Francis Ford Coppola) – also a 1998 British film directed by Tony Davies
Other articles with no other standalone article
Asuka (wrestler) (Japanese professional wrestler born in 1981) – also
Veny (also a Japanese professional wrestler, formerly under the name of Asuka) and
Lioness Asuka (also a Japanese professional wrestler) (10:1 pageview ratio between the top two, RM closed as not moved 15 April 2023, a subsequent RM proposing moving to
Asuka closed as not moved 20 October 2023)
Richard Parker (mutineer), an English sailor executed in 1797 – also a character in the 1838 Edgar Allan Poe novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (it is possible that Poe based his character on the historical person, but no reliable source has been found that offers an opinion on that; Poe character not noticed in RM discussion closed 19 April 2021)
Xu Bin (footballer) – another footballer with the same name was among the top scorers in
2020 China League Two (RM closed as moved to the PDAB name 19 March 2024)
The following is a manually updated list of
WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT article redirects with parenthetical partial disambiguation on the English language Wikipedia.
n (year) – redirects to AD n – see also n BC (where n is a non-primary topic year number – see
WP:YEARDAB. Instances of n include the integers 1–150, 311, 360, 365, 383, 404, 411, 420, 442, 500, 666 and 747.)
Partially disambiguated article titles detected but not yet studied
These two tables contain a list of cases where one title has a partial qualifier which is a prefix or suffix of one or more other title's full qualifier. For the example of "John Doe (footballer)", the first table might pair him with "John Doe (footballer, born 1987)" and the second with "John Doe (Irish footballer)". False positives have been filtered out by automated elimination of set indices etc. and by manual checking, but some may remain. The correct course of action is not obvious and varies between cases. Some partial qualifiers should be made more precise, with the partially qualified name becoming a new dab or a redirect to an existing dab; other cases may be moved to the lists above once they have been studied. There should be no overlap between the tables, but some cases in the prefix table may also have undetected matches of the suffix kind.