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With more links appearing daily, clearly we need to keep up the good work to keep those numbers low, but I wonder if this is a good time to think about where to go from here. - Certes, 5 December 2018
That got me thinking. My first idea was given names and surnames (those now constitute my planned part 2). On further consideration, I felt that intentional links to DAB pages might be a simpler place to start.
The vast majority of links through (disambiguation) qualifiers are perfectly good. There is, however, a small number where an editor has clumsily evaded a DABbing problem by linking through a (disambiguation) qualifier. These are extremely difficult to spot, invariably annoying, and sometimes totally useless. (I have seen links like that where there was nothing relevant on the DAB page. Almost all could be redlinked or {{ ill}}-linked after searching.) This proposal is designed to address that problem. I do not think it conflicts or overlaps with, or would require modification of, anything else.
I propose the following scheme:
(1) User:IDL bot would look for and log links to pages in Category:Disambiguation pages and its subcategories. It would ignore links which can be presumed good, such as:
IDL bot would place its finds in a new maintenance (do not delete if empty!) category, Category:Articles with unassessed links to disambiguation pages. I suggest a daily run. I doubt whether it would be worthwhile generating a list of such links. I also doubt whether it would be worthwhile creating monthly subcategories. This looks like a largely one-off task, in which new problem links will be rare.
IDL bot will of course pick up good intentional links to DAB pages, e.g. in hatnotes which don't use templates, in main text, and as see-also links. That can't be helped. This is where template intdablink (and the heavy lifting) come in.
(2) The idea behind Template:Intdablink is to provide a standard wrapper for an intentional link to a DAB page, to show that an editor has reviewed it and considers it correct. It would be much more compact than e.g. my current technique of adding <!--intentional link to DAB page-->. I doubt whether the sort of editor who introduces the type of error under discussion would notice its existence, so the risk of misuse should be small.
Its syntax would be {{intdablink|page=|pipe=|date=}}.
Examples:
Intdablink would populate Category:Articles with assessed links to disambiguation pages. It isn't immediately obvious when that category might be useful; but it looks straightforward to populate; and if it ever is needed, it's there.
In an ideal word, adding Intdablink would also depopulate Category:Articles with unassessed links to disambiguation pages. That looks like overcomplication and much more trouble than it would be worth. It would be necessary to check for other links on each page before depopulation. It would be much simpler just to regenerate Category:Articles with unassessed links to disambiguation pages on each IDL bot run.
IPL bot would also update a very simple report each time it ran: date, #unassessed, #assessed, #total. That would show the progress and encourage editors.
I know nothing about writing bots or templates. I therefore propose leaving those tasks to the hordes of eager volunteers. It would probably be a good idea to do some preliminary testing before going live, to estimate the amount of work which this proposal would create. I would be very willing to help clear up the resulting dog's breakfast.
As I am sure that there must be things which I have got wrong or overlooked, or which could be done more simply, I now sign off as Narky Blert ( talk) 21:31, 9 December 2018 (UTC), and throw this idea open for
That looks like an interesting idea and a workable design. It's certainly worth an initial run to count the potential problems. Mainspace has 372,000 wikilinks to "Something (disambiguation)"; I can't easily tell how many of those have the attributes listed above which mean they're probably good. Certes ( talk) 22:47, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
{{
See also dab|FizBuz}}
would reduce the typing and add an air of authority, as well as marking exclusions which don't need to be checked.
Certes (
talk)
02:06, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
{{
See also dab|FizBuz}}
idea - it makes disambiguation in hatnotes and See also's simpler and more clear.
Leschnei (
talk)
14:26, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
{{
other uses dab|FizBuz}}
might be a better example, because {{
other uses}} without parameters generates a link to
Pagename (disambiguation). Similarly with {{
other people}}.
Narky Blert (
talk)
15:26, 10 December 2018 (UTC)I realize that it is a bit outside of the gnoming that this project usually delves into, but I have a fat stack of WP:DABCONCEPT drafts in various states of construction that will ultimately take the place of a variety of poorly thought-out disambiguation pages. Just in the past few months, we have completed Stranger, Rivalry, and Rethinking for this purpose, and I think these came out quite nicely. bd2412 T 20:10, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
When a disambiguation page is proposed as a merge target, the templates used to make that proposal (e.g. {{merge to|Foobar}}, {{merge from|Barfoo}} create a link which registers as a disambiguation link. See Bank of American Fork (building) for a live example. Can we do something to prevent our system from reporting those as links needing to be fixed? bd2412 T 05:24, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Goubangzi railway station and Xingcheng railway station link to the DAB page Jinzhou railway station instead of to Jinzhou railway station (Jinzhou). Template:S-rail-national seems to be another of those railway templates with code impenetrable to all but initiates and no means of disambiguation. The fact that the {{ dn}} tags, and the hidden notes on them, have been around since August 2017 says something. Narky Blert ( talk) 08:18, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
We have a few links to dab Ligurian language. These come from passing language code "lij" to Module:Lang via templates such as {{ Infobox Italian comune}}. It has been suggested that we resolve this by removing the disambiguation page and promoting the current language to primary topic. What does the team think? Certes ( talk) 14:34, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
lij
to variable override
in
Module:Lang/data might work. Perhaps a template editor can test this by pasting
Module:Sandbox/Certes over
Module:Lang/data and previewing
Camogli without saving. (My usual workaround of fiddling around with
Special:TemplateSandbox only seems to work for previewing changes to protected templates, not modules.)
Certes (
talk)
15:16, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
lij
on an infobox Talk Page several months ago, possibly as long as a year ago.
Narky Blert (
talk)
20:55, 9 December 2018 (UTC)override
:
override
: ["lij"] = {"Ligurian", link="Ligurian (Romance language)"},
name_from_code
to something like
this (untested)lij
would work correctly for the modern Ligurian.xlg
'Ligurian (Ancient)' in
Module:Language/data/iana languages with 'Ancient Ligurian' in
Module:Lang/data.link={}
table in Module:Lang/data that associates a language code with its matching en.wiki article. Then it's a simple test to create a wikilink from that:
if link then -- when |link=yes, wikilink the language name
if language_name:find ('languages') then
return make_wikilink (language_name); -- collective language name uses simple wikilink
elseif lang_data.linkcode then
return make_wikilink (lang_data.linkcode], language_name); -- language name with wikilink from override data
else
return make_wikilink (language_name .. ' language', language_name); -- language name with wikilink
end
end
if
and elseif
so a link table entry works even if the name contains "languages".
Certes (
talk)
21:12, 9 December 2018 (UTC)What should we do about Bajwa, and especially its link from {{ Ethnic and social groups of the Punjab}}? That template's other entries are mainly articles about castes etc., with a few surname pages, so I'm reluctant to add an INTDABLINK. Certes ( talk) 11:19, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
When I started getting interested in DABfixing, Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation contained the best part of 11,000 entries dating back to 2012. I helped get that number down to 4,500, then watched as it drifted out to 7,000.
There are now consistently fewer than 1,500 entries, and the oldest are from 2016. I have just given that year a good going-over; 85 entries in 8 months remain. Can those numbers be reduced still further? Narky Blert ( talk) 07:28, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
The "from the top 1000 disambiguation pages" phrasing at the top of the list might be outdated for the first time next month. The January list might contain all mainspace links to disambiguation pages. Amazing! Dekimasu よ! 22:28, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
This group is an oddity. None of the problem pages caught by Disambiguation pages with links contains anything which looks like a link to the relevant DAB page. Some of them look as if they might once have done, through a template; but I can't see anything obviously wrong in any such template, and WP:NULLEDITs on the articles and templates don't clear the bad links. I've been seeing all these problems for several weeks. There's no connection between the topics, so the problems may be independent of each other.
Thoughts, anyone? Narky Blert ( talk) 20:07, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
|linking_name=X
parameter would allow us to link to "Politics of X" instead, but it's not clear what we would set X to. It could also break several other links, as the infobox uses the same parameter for several purposes. There may be an argument for writing a BCA over
Politics of Korea.
Certes (
talk)
20:53, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
|linking_name=Korea in exile
, then create redirects from "Politics of Korea in exile", "Flag of Korea in exile", etc. to the desired targets, leaving the title without a page if we don't want a link.
Certes (
talk)
12:00, 26 December 2018 (UTC)|politics_link=
parameter which we can change, but only to an actual link. (If the target doesn't exist, the text will be red rather than black.) I'll set this to something harmless like
Government, unless someone can think of a better destination.
Certes (
talk)
18:15, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
|politics_link=
? I.e., <nowiki>BlackLinkName</nowiki>. It works in some but not all templates which autogenerate links.
Narky Blert (
talk)
17:50, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
We have an new template linking to rail station dabs: {{
Station link}}, which usually appears as its redirect stl. The solution is to read the code after stl, prefix it by Module:Adjacent stations/, and edit the Lua code. For example,
Line 21 (Guangzhou Metro) was linking to dab
Changping station. The cause is {{
GZM stations|Changping}}
, which is a wrapper around {{
stl|GZM|Changping}}
. Looking up the code GZM gives us
Module:Adjacent stations/GZM. In this case, that is a require statement, which is Lua's version of a soft redirect, telling us that
this edit fixes the problem. Happy coding,
Certes (
talk)
13:27, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
In 2018 PSAC Football Championship Game, Template:Infobox NCAA football yearly game is calling the DAB page West Chester. The problem seems to be that 2018 West Chester Golden Rams football team doesn't exist; because Slippery Rock pipes nicely as 2018 Slippery Rock football team. Narky Blert ( talk) 18:10, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Many articles such as
Egyptian Armed Forces use {{
Africa topic|Military of}}
. This creates a link to dab
Military of Libya. This is a similar case to
Communism in India reported
above (which remains unresolved), but with less justification for a BCA. Any suggestions please?
Certes (
talk)
23:06, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
I fell across Template:Pagelist earlier today. It seems to have no way of handling ambiguous links, either by [[]] or by {{!}}. Nor does it seem to have a means of suppressing links.
The article in question was nanoparticle; search for printer. I compromised by changing the unqualified to a fully-qualified link; although in that pagelist item, I would have preferred to delink both paper and printer as irrelevant, and to use a more relevant link for ink such as ink#Carbon or toner. Narky Blert ( talk) 23:36, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
The 'runner-up' field in the infobox in Bids for the 2006 Winter Olympics links to DAB page Sion rather than to Sion, Switzerland in some obscure manner or other. Narky Blert ( talk) 14:07, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
At least one field, and I imagine a lot more, in
Template:International football competition statistics autogenerates a link which may be incorrect with no obvious fix: see |least time difference 2 goals-team=
in
2002 FIFA World Cup statistics.
Narky Blert (
talk)
17:44, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Template:Year in Japan inserts the year as a raw number - which is fine for recent years, but is NBG for low numbers which are DAB pages, and may not work at all for BCE. See the field 'Other events of 70' in the infobox of 70 in Japan. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:33, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
I've made the first draft of an essay in a sandbox. Suggestions for content improvement and a better title are welcome. Certes ( talk) 14:28, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Template:Adjacent stations contains |leftn=
and |rightn=
fields with no obvious way to disambiguate them. See
Pointe-aux-Trembles station (Via Rail); the two links should be to
Ahuntsic station (Via Rail).
Narky Blert (
talk)
18:01, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Beware that North Macedonia has moved, creating some new links to dabs. Work still seems to be in progress: the page has had over 100 edits today. Related pages are also on the move ( Macedonian culture moved twice while I was investigating one problem) and links are being updated, including those generated by complex templates such as {{ European topic}}. It may take a few days for things to settle down. Certes ( talk) 23:22, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
The following is a list of the dab pages with one more incoming link from this month's DAB challenge that also appear in today's list of dab pages with missing entries. Of course, the missing entries report doesn't catch all missing entries, and there might be the occasional false positive as well.
Anyone interested in helping to add those missing entries? If you do any from the list, it will be helpful to mark it with {{ done}}.
Thanks in advance! – Uanfala (talk) 21:42, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
In case anyone was wondering, there is a massive ongoing outage of the Toolforge database. That means no updates to the DAB Challenge or any of the other dplbot pages, and no Daily Disambig, until it gets fixed, which probably won't be until Tuesday at the earliest, and maybe later. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 19:04, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
I notice an increasing number of alleged navboxes which navigate between a few articles and a sea of redlinks. These come to my attention because one of the many topics lacking an article happens to share its name with a dab page. On closer inspection, most of the blue links lead to unrelated topics. Example edit, because our article Wagon is not about an obscure village. Are there any criteria for creating a NAVBOX? Is it grounds for discussion if, say, less than 10% of the links lead to relevant articles? Certes ( talk) 11:33, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Can anyone see how 1989 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy and 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup are calling the redirect Germany national field hockey team, which points to DAB page Germany national hockey team? because I'm fuddled if I can. Mousing over every link in those articles one by one suggests that everything links correctly to Germany men's national field hockey team. WP:NULLEDITs have made no difference, and those bad links have been around for a week. I suspect that something nasty may be happening inside {{ fh}} or {{ fh-rt}} or both. Narky Blert ( talk) 08:26, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
Democratic Action Party was briefly a dab with many incoming links. It currently redirects to the Malaysian party but may change again, depending on the result of Talk:Democratic Action Party (disambiguation)#Requested move 17 February 2019. I've sat boldly on the fence, but other editors may have more helpful insights. Certes ( talk) 02:26, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
The list below includes all dab pages with missing entries (from this report) that have incoming links (according to this months' DAB Challenge list). The fundamental idea is to make sure a dab page is complete before fixing incoming links as some of these links could be intended for the missing entries. There's a massive caveat though: only some types of missing entries are tracked: for example, the report doesn't look for comma-separated or natural disambiguators, or for topics that are covered within other articles, or for articles that don't yet exist. So even after the missing entries identified here have been added, it continues to be possible that the intended target of a given incoming link can be something that's not on the dab page. Also, there might be occasional false positives in the list.
If you fix a dab page, it will be a good idea to add {{ done}} after its entry. Thanks in advance! – Uanfala (talk) 18:51, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Adoration of the Shepherds (Lucas Cranach the Elder) includes {{ Infobox artwork/wikidata}}, and is creating an unlinked call to the DAB page lime. d:Q46473788 includes a subcall for lime to d:Q575018 which makes clear what I had already guessed: 'lime' means lindenwood from Tilia. (There are articles on the wood in frwiki and ruwiki, but not in enwiki.) A bluelink in the article (labelled 'lime' rather than 'Tilia') would be useful. As usual with Wikidata, I got stuck at this point... Narky Blert ( talk) 15:05, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
What do we think of King of Nepal? Perhaps it should be a BCA or at least a SIA of the successive royal houses, including Licchavi (kingdom)#Rulers and History of Limbuwan. Certes ( talk) 11:02, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Several pages have moved, including a dab. I would welcome replies at Talk:Emmanuel#Titles, redirects and links. Certes ( talk) 11:39, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
In 2018 Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan), Template:Cycling race/stageclassification calls d:Q56754726. Wikidata in turn checks for the DAB page Aleksandr Smirnov, and generates one of those pairs of blacklink-in-article plus spurious what-links-here on the DAB page. Aleksandr Smirnov (cyclist) doesn't appear to exist in any WP (perhaps unsurprisingly, if his best result is 6th in one stage of an obscure stage race).
It also creates another (relatively harmless) pair for Nikita Sokolov, who's a footballer; I haven't checked the Q-numbers, but there could be 6 of those.
I could go off those templates which call Wikidata. Narky Blert ( talk) 14:05, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Toolforge is having another one of its spasms. I'm AFK for the next few days so there won't be muchI can do. Not entiely sure what will or won't work for now. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 14:24, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
Can we start tagging drafts with large numbers of disambiguation links, so they do not get moved to mainspace until those issues are resolved? bd2412 T 00:20, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Ferrous#Make it into a disamb page? before fixing links to dab Ferrous. Thanks, Certes ( talk) 11:33, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
The discussion (which has probably run its course) at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Excessive and irrelevant linking, even down to syllables of words may be of interest to other DABfixers. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:39, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Most new DAB page links are because the editor doesn't know the thing is a DAB link. There is a behavior buried in Preferences that displays DAB links in orange:
Preferences>Gadgets>Appearance>"Display links to disambiguation pages in orange
I think that should become the default Wiki behavior. New DAB links would drop hugely. Cptmrmcmillan ( talk) 16:16, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
Biodiversity of Europe, in Biodiversity of Albania and Biodiversity of Kosovo, linking to Biodiversity of the United Kingdom. As is usual with these 'Continent topic' pages, impenetrable code and no obvious way of fixing the error. Narky Blert ( talk) 06:22, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
{{ ifcs}} is yet another template which autocompletes at least one field, possibly wrongly, with no obvious way to override.
The example I found was |fastest yellow sub opponent1=
in
2002 FIFA World Cup#Disciplinary statistics, linking to the DAB page
United States national football team rather than to
United States men's national soccer team. I suspect the problem extends to all the team/opponent fields in the template.
Narky Blert (
talk)
14:40, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
{{
Nft|{{{fastest yellow opponent1}}}}}
was replaced by a link to "{{{fastest yellow opponent1}}} national football team", using the default title format because Nft doesn't know of an exception for a country called Fastest Yellow Opponent 1. This may or may not turn out to be the right page, depending what country gets passed to the template later. I've added more code to dissuade the bot from substituting the template before the country is identified.
Certes (
talk)
15:08, 19 May 2019 (UTC)In Boulder Railroad Depot, Template:s-line amusingly links to the redirect Denver station which points to the DAB page Denver railway station while leaving no trace of how it's doing so. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:34, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Several dabs such as M3 motorway have incoming links. I hope that these will soon disappear. Details: Template talk:Ukmotorwaysmall. Certes ( talk) 17:50, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
A few pages are sticking on the Disambiguation pages with links report.
Anna K. Demic studied at the [Free] University of Brussels, with no further clues in text or references
Willie Wynne (UPP): 12,345 votes, with no further clues in text or references
Please can anyone help? Certes ( talk) 15:35, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Perth Australia Temple calls the redirect Kenneth Johnson to the DAB page Ken Johnson - click Expand next to Additional information in the infobox to view. I have no idea where it's getting the link from, and there doesn't seem to be anyone relevant on the DAB page. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:28, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
If anyone can find out how List of Moscow Metro stations is linking to the DAB page Kosino instead of to Kosino (Moscow Metro), you've done better than I managed. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:54, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
They've been mentioned before, but is this project interested in SIAs with links? I took The Telegraph as a random example: 126 pages linked there, of which 117 needed editing (mainly to The Daily Telegraph), including one I couldn't fix ({{dn}} is dubious and messes up the formatting). Nine are legitimate links to the list; I didn't mark them since The Telegraph (disambiguation) is also dubious. The first SIAs on the list are Captain and Diagnosis. Each has about 600 incoming links which, at a quick glance, seem as accurate as The Telegraph's, and with 3,000 SIAs this is the tip of the iceberg. It's not urgent but might keep us busy while the reports are broken. Any thoughts? Certes ( talk) 19:19, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
SIAs worry me; but a discussion such as this should perhaps be conducted at WP:SIA rather than here.
I'm not even going to refer to the guidelines. As I see it, SIAs fill an uneasy gap between (1) lists which fail the notability requirements of WP:LISTN, and (2) DAB pages, which per MOS:DAB should contain neither orphan redlinks nor citations. (I enthusiastically delete orphan redlinks from DAB pages when it's clear that there's nothing there (in particular, vanity posts). However, if there's a prima facie assertion of notability, such as being an inhabited place, I don't even look into them, whatever WP:DABMENTION might say. If I go into a non-English WP to solve a DABlink problem, I often add a {{ ill}} link in the English DAB page, because – IMAO – WP:IAR and WP:5P5 override MOS:DAB. An {{ ill}} link on a DAB page points readers towards useful information. And, you never know, but someone might write the English article (I've done it myself).)
However, SIAs are too often grab-bag pages containing items which have nothing in common but similarity of name. For me, that's DAB territory. Just about every SIA I've looked at while tracking down a DABlink has contained at least one bad incoming link. That is not good for the encyclopedia. Narky Blert ( talk) 22:00, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Dreamy Jazz has boldly tagged The Telegraph as a dab and no one has complained yet. I've fixed the 73 bad incoming links which appeared in the two months since my previous pass. If the edit sticks then perhaps we can do the same to the other SIAs. On a related note, I'm working with editors active at Trove to get their Australian newspaper archives linked to the correct enwiki articles, e.g. linking this entry to Telegraph (Brisbane), which should make it easier to get certain assisted edits right. Certes ( talk) 11:03, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Last year, dab tags were replaced by newspaper SIA tags on several pages, leaving them in dab format. Yesterday, I restored a few of the dab tags and duly fixed the incoming links. However, my edits have now been reverted, which I suppose makes future bad links someone else's problem. Ah well, it was worth a try. Certes ( talk) 08:48, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
Another of those templates whose workings I have no temptation to try to understand. It's often difficult enough to locate where in the text the bad link is being generated. In European route E15, {{Jct|country=GBR|M|8}} links to the DAB page M8 motorway instead of to M8 motorway (Scotland). Similarly, {{Jct|country=GBR|M|9}} links to M9 motorway instead of to M9 motorway (Scotland). Narky Blert ( talk) 10:31, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
|dab1=Scotland
to {{
Jct}}. For reasons I don't understand, simple calls to several specialised templates are currently being systematically replaced by complex calls to Jct, and unfortunately some of those changes don't work.
Certes (
talk)
10:44, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Broad-concept articles aren't dab pages, and so links to them are perfectly acceptable. However, there are dab pages that should be converted to broad-concept articles, and links to them probably don't need fixing. Some of these dab pages are explicitly marked as needing conversion (via a template that places them in Category:Disambiguation pages to be converted to broad concept articles), so I'm wondering if they shouldn't be excluded from the monthly reports. – Uanfala (talk) 14:52, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
990s transcludes the DAB page 999 rather than AD 999. (This is a consequence of a recent WP:RM.) Expert help needed, as usual. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:02, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
This is an both an article and a disambiguation page. Any suggestions what to do to resolve this besides using this very tedious (to type) link track record
Thanks. Stretchrunner ( talk) 16:31, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
"An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Stagehand (horse), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Track record (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 08:10, 9 August 2019 (UTC)"
The instructions in Template:Linked species list don't work for redlinks. In Dryopteridoideae, I can pipe Phanerophlebia successfully as Phanerophlebia{{!}}Phanerophlebia (well, duh!), but I can get neither of the described DABbing methods to link to the redlink Phanerophlebia (plant). Narky Blert ( talk) 13:22, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
I need your advice on Talk:Sinai, as I am in a discussion with a colleague about the primary topic of Sinai. The colleague seems determined to change it to a link to a disambiguation page, breaking hundreds of links in the process. The Banner talk 08:36, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
400s (decade) transcludes the DAB page 404 instead of AD 404, and 990s transcludes 999 rather than AD 999. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:39, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
In the infobox of
Field hockey in India, |sport=
field hockey expands to [[India national field hockey team|India]]; which is a redirect to a DAB page. There seems no easy way either to insert 'men's' or 'women's' between 'India' and 'national' into this compound string, or to distinguish the visible part of the link as anything other than 'India'.
Narky Blert (
talk)
16:45, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
In
Laurentides—Labelle,
Template:Infobox Canada electoral district has the fields |fed-rep=
and |fed-rep-link=
, completed as
David Graham (a DAB page) and
David de Burgh Graham (the correct link) respectively. fed-rep-link isn't working, and the article is linking to the DAB page.
Narky Blert (
talk)
14:50, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
|fed-rep-link=
parameter, but it doesn't.
Certes (
talk)
15:31, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
|fed-rep-link=
(literally; no link text given) so it looks as if someone expected the parameter to become supported and it might be a good idea to add it.
Certes (
talk)
10:44, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
(UTC)
I see that the project page has been removed from Category:Active WikiProjects. It's certainly active (I contributed this morning) and seems to qualify as a WikiProject. It's not called WP:WikiProject Something, but then other stuff exists, which I think is a legitimate argument for organisation even if deprecated for content. Perhaps it's merely a subproject within WP:WikiProject Disambiguation. What does the team think? Certes ( talk) 13:49, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
Anyone know why the DAB Challenge leaderboard hasn't been updated in 13 days, or how to fix it? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 18:51, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Template:Linked species list doesn't accept either bluelinked ([[|]]) or pseudo-piped ({{!}}) overrides. See Dryopteridoideae, and the ambiguous link to Phanerophlebia (which should be to the redlink Phanerophlebia (plant)). Narky Blert ( talk) 12:02, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
By some devious means or other, Template:Infobox political party in People's Party of Georgia (country) is calling the DAB page Politics of Georgia rather than the more specific and arguably more helpful Politics of Georgia (country). Narky Blert ( talk) 05:08, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
|country_dab1=Politics of Georgia (country)
.
Certes (
talk)
11:09, 25 September 2019 (UTC)I have a second collection of {{ dn}} links which seem to me near-insoluble and may be "who cares?" My inclination would be to unlink the lot, but am posting here in case anyone can see merit in rescuing any of them as redlinks. This is basically a mass call for second opinions.
Yrs, Narky Blert ( talk) 22:01, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
In Berlin Charlottenburg – Wilmersdorf, Template:MMP election box candidate links to the DAB page Other; with no obvious means of stopping it, except by <nowiki></nowiki> or {{ dn}} tags, which break the formatting. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:01, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
Here we go again. The |fed-rep-party=
field in
Template:Infobox Malaysia electoral district converts UPP into a link to the DAB page (with qualified title, yuck)
United People's Party (Malaysia). In
Sri Aman (federal constituency) and
Bawang Assan, the link should be to
Sarawak United Party (PSB). It may be the same in
Engkilili (state constituency) and
Opar (state constituency); but because the MLA is redlinked, I can't be sure. Amusingly, bluelinking or pseudo-piping UPP, or changing it to PSB, renders as 'DCDCDC'.
Narky Blert (
talk)
12:12, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
In 1247, 1248 and 1249, a template (probably Template:Year dab or Template:Year nav) links to the DAB page Hōji rather than to Hōji (era). Narky Blert ( talk) 15:28, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
Aaand another one! In
Mary Geaney and
Rena Buckley, |icallireland=
in
Template:Infobox GAA player expands as [[All-Ireland Senior Championship|All-Irelands]]; and
All-Ireland Senior Championship is, inevitably, a DAB page. Matters are made no easier by the fact that they both won both the
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship and the
All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship. Compare
Template talk:Infobox Gaelic Athletic Association player#A link to a DAB page, where a fix was found for players active in only one code.
Narky Blert (
talk)
09:59, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
|icallirelandf=
and request a new |icallirelandc=
parameter. If not then we might just omit the camogie titles as we would for a less significant sport. For "dual" players (the template recognises only football and hurling), a table is produced. No one has won all-Ireland championships in both sports. though several such as
Tomás Brady have other types of honour in both columns.
Certes (
talk)
09:48, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
I put a link to a disambiguation page in a hatnote at the top of an article. I got a message from User:DPL bot. I guess my question is whether, if the disambiguation page is primary, I am still supposed to put (disambiguation) in the hatnote just so that both the bot and human editors will know that I am doing that on purpose. Robert McClenon ( talk) 16:38, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
Template:S-rail-national is yet another railway station template which assumes that station names are unique and which has no obvious way of disambiguation. In this case, Halifax railway station in Elland railway station. Narky Blert ( talk) 16:30, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
|county1=West Yorkshire
.
Certes (
talk)
16:45, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
|county1=
do a similar job for Great Britain as {{
S-line}} with |state1=
do elsewhere, if you pretend that Nova Scotia is a state.
Certes (
talk)
22:52, 30 October 2019 (UTC)In Alderson station, {{Adjacent stations|system=Chesapeake and Ohio|line=Main Line|left=Hinton|right=Ronceverte}} links to the DAB page Hinton station. Hinton station (West Virginia) says that it's that one. I seriously cannot find the energy to try to understand the mechanics of 'labour-saving' templates of this sort. It's enough bother to find out what's causing the error. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:04, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm looking ahead beyond some current work to restructure the top pages in the climate change subject area. When the dust has settled I expect "climate change" will be a redirect page pointing at global warming or "global warming" will redirect to climate change, or both with redirect to some other title, perhaps global warming and climate change. Whatever.... I'm thinking people will link to the redirect pages, and it would be nice to have something like User DPL bot to send them a notice.
Does that exist? If not, would it be helpful? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 01:54, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
reset I'm not sure I expressed myself well, so please allow me to try again. The idea is KEEP the redirect pages and KEEP existing links to them. GOING FORWARD.... when an editor adds new content, .... would it be worth gently encouraging users to consider adding their new content with links directly to target articles, instead of adding links to redirects? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 10:44, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
I would assumepart..., that's kind of ironic. Just a couple days ago I was talking with someone about editors who link ambiguous titles without checking them, and end up linking something they never intended. I agree with your edit summary that redirects are NOTBROKEN but making decisions based on faulty assumptions of human nature might be. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 17:10, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
A template used in S̩, seemingly some sort of misbegotten child of Template:Latin alphabet/main, links to (count 'em) 116 DAB pages and 8 probably-wrong pages. I have no idea how it is doing that, but suspect from the pattern that some code is creating every possible two-character combination which includes 's' or 'S' and merrily linking to whatever it finds.
My suggestion would be to either kill it with fire or nuke it from space before it does further damage, but don't know which button to press or lever to pull. Other suggestions, or indeed actual button-pressing or lever-pulling, would be welcome. Narky Blert ( talk) 23:15, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
When the parameter is a straight letter A-Z, the block with letter pairs is shown, which we don't want because it's a dabfest. Certes ( talk) 23:49, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
Template:Taxonomy/Stromatella calls the DAB page Stromatella rather than Stromatella (alga). This is another template where trying a piped or a pseudopiped link generates display errors. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:44, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
I received a message from it after editing List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations, however this article intentionally links to disambiguation pages as it concerns the words themselves. If they are not already could such articles be whitelisted to prevent these DPL from being removed by mistake? Snizzbut ( talk) 18:09, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
The infobox in François Barbé-Marbois is fetching a link to the DAB page statesman from Wikidata. The link is presumably buried somewhere in wikidata:Q708732. He's already listed as a politician, so this entry seems redundant (it's a weasel word - the leader of my party is a statesman, the leader of yours is a politician). Narky Blert ( talk) 08:51, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
It's one of those days. In
2017 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament,
2018 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and
2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, |MOP=
in
Template:Infobox NCAA Ice Hockey Conference Tournament expands to
Most Outstanding Player; which, to nobody's surprise, is a DAB page.
In these three cases, the answer is WCHA Most Outstanding Player in Tournament. In others, it might be List of NCAA Division I Ice Hockey Tournament Most Outstanding Player. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:17, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
|MOPlink=
, which should be an easy change.
Certes (
talk)
17:54, 26 November 2019 (UTC)In Divorce demography, Template:DDSC produces a "(more info)" link to the DAB page Divorce in the United Kingdom, with no obvious way of stopping it. I assume that the figures are for the whole UK, but am not sure. If they are, then a link through the (disambiguation) qualifier would work; except that it seems that no-one gets divorced in Northern Ireland. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:10, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
In Jens Juel (diplomat), the caption in the infobox is creating a circular link to the DAB page Jens Juel. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:41, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
If Template:Subin does provide a way of disambiguating a link (the documentation is bordering unintelligible), the one attempted in Lisa Dahlkvist for Jessica Samuelsson doesn't work. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:55, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
The Wikidata import in the infobox in Julia Bax links to the DAB page Kaos. This link suffers from the trifling disadvantage that there is no relevant article in either English or Portuguese WP. Narky Blert ( talk) 11:29, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Bids for the 2019 Pan American Games links to DAB page La Punta - according to User:DPL bot and what-links-here, but I can't see how. I bookmarked the page 6 (or possibly 12) weeks ago hoping that the problem would go away, but it hasn't.
My guess is that |candidate2=
in
Template:Infobox Pan American Games bid may be checking for an article, but ignoring the bit after the comma while creating a blacklink.
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:40, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
{{#ifexist:{{{candidate2}}}...
, but it doesn't manipulate the string to remove the suffix.)
Certes (
talk)
11:34, 20 December 2019 (UTC)The infobox in Munich East station calls the DAB page Taufkirchen in a very obscure manner, possibly by way of Template:s-line; very obscure, because Taufkirchen is only mentioned once in main text; where it links to Taufkirchen, Hugo-Junkers-Straße (MVV). There is also a hidden link to Taufkirchen, Lilienthalstraße (MVV). Narky Blert ( talk) 15:45, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
What is currently wrong with the Enigma dab? It still hows one link. I fixed every reference in the article namespace I could find. The only ones left are redirects, and those seem legitimate. What's currently causing this to be flagged? Coastside ( talk) 19:46, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
List of Nova Scotia provincial highways twice calls the DAB page Nova Scotia Trunk 32. (Search for the {{ dn}} tags to find the links.) The links are assembled from data items passed to {{ jct}}. While that has a wide variety of bells and whistles, none of them seems to enable overriding of the autogenerated link.
The first link (in the table) should be to Northwest Arm Drive. The second link (in the list) should be to Nova Scotia Route 332#History. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:21, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
The broad-concept article Potential has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Potential. I note this here because the intent of the nominator appears to be to point all of the incoming links to that page to the disambiguation page currently at Potential (disambiguation). BD2412 T 19:53, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
Changping railway station (Beijing) links to the DAB page Zhangjiakou railway station. I think it's a reasonable bet that it's not meant to be the station which closed in 2014. Amusingly, the link is generated somewhere other than in the article. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:47, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Hundreds of incoming links. Is there a best solution generally applicable to links to this title? BD2412 T 00:51, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
It's been a while since I came across one of these one-size-fits-all uncustomisable templates. In Outline of North America, Template:North America topic, customised as 'Ecoregions of North America', calls the redirect List of ecoregions in the United States, which points to the DAB page Lists of ecoregions in the United States. Narky Blert ( talk) 16:52, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
Has this or something like it come up before? In Bids for the 1976 Winter Olympics, the runner-up field in the infobox, buried in a template, links to DAB page Sion instead of to Sion, Switzerland. Narky Blert ( talk) 11:45, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
On Morocco national basketball team there are several links to Association Salé in the Past roster section. The template uses 'dab =' to disambiguate the player's name but I don't see a way to disambiguate the club. Is there a trick? Leschnei ( talk) 14:45, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
|club=AS Salé (basketball){{!}}AS Salé
should work but I've used |clublink=
since it exists.
Certes (
talk)
16:16, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
In List of armies by country, {{army|Uganda}} generates a link to the DAB page Uganda Army, with no obvious way of overriding that to link to Uganda People's Defence Force. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:28, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
2018–19 Borussia Mönchengladbach season and 2018–19 Hannover 96 season both call the ambiguous redirect Michael Lang (footballer). After a bit of a struggle (I had to click on every 'show' in the articles), I've tracked him down to {{Bundesliga matches|2018–19|MÖN}} and {{Bundesliga matches|2018–19|HAN}} respectively. In both cases, it should be Michael Lang (footballer, born 1991). Narky Blert ( talk) 11:47, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Template:Infobox GAA player remains the same problem; see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links/Archive 15#Template:Infobox GAA player, opened 12 October 2019. Narky Blert ( talk) 11:06, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Proposed new CSD criterion: R5, for redirects with malformed or misspelled (disambiguation) qualifiers which may be of interest to editors who follow this page. Narky Blert ( talk) 19:47, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
As of April, I will be making a long-overdue change to the DAB Challenge. The "Bonus List" will be eliminated, and the "Monthly List" will be expanded from 1,000 items to contain all disambiguation pages with incoming links as of the start of the month. The practical impact of this is minimal, since the two lists have overlapped for a while now, and all disambiguation pages with links were on one list or the other. There will only be one leaderboard going forward, the webpages dedicated to the Bonus List will stop working at some point on April 2 (there may be some error messages until I have a chance to swap out some files on the server), and the Monthly List pages will have more entries, but otherwise there should be relatively little change to how the monthly challenge operates. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 19:05, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
I'd like to renew my previous suggestion to please consider expanding the contest to other namespaces (e.g. Book, Category, File, Portal). Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 03:39, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
The disambiguation page Total has four incoming links from Template:Election box winning candidate with party link no change (e.g. 1940 United States Senate election in New York). What template would be a good replacement so there is no link to Total? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 18:08, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Template:Canadian cabinet member navigational box header has a couple of cute features. (1) The |ministry=
field requires underscores, or it doesn't render. It appends (Canadian politician) to the name. (2) There is no way of disambiguating. See
Charles Stewart in
Wilfrid Gariépy; the link should be
Charles Stewart (premier), because there have been three notable people called
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician).
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Editors considering improving {{ Navbox x-word}} may be interested in this tea party. Certes ( talk) 21:26, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
In the infobox of Irish Republican Brotherhood, there is a link to DAB page Elections in Ireland, possibly obscurely generated by Template:Infobox political party. It isn't clear whether this refers to Elections in the United Kingdom or Elections in the Republic of Ireland or both; Elections in Northern Ireland can perhaps be ruled out. Narky Blert ( talk) 08:53, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
What should we do about Fauna of Slovakia and Fauna of Slovenia? Their entries are subsets of the title so they shouldn't really be dabs, in the same way that United States isn't a dab listing Alabama, Alaska, etc. They have legitimate incoming links, including some through {{ Fauna of Europe}}. Certes ( talk) 11:05, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
In
UAAP Season 71 men's basketball tournament,
Template:UAAPathlete calls the DAB page
Joshua Webb rather than the redlink
Joshua Webb (basketball). All the usual tricks (|dab=
, |d=
, pseudo-pipe) generate a LUA error.
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:10, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
|link=
, with the added feature that the name appears in black (rather than the usual red) until the article is created.
Certes (
talk)
10:21, 27 April 2020 (UTC)Could someone please check the DAB Challenge page? It still states we're in April. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 14:35, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
In
Communist Party of Georgia (Soviet Union), the infobox links to DAB page
Politics of Georgia. It isn't clear to me how it's generating the link, but my guess would be from the unlinked field |country=
Georgia.
Narky Blert (
talk)
08:15, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
|country_dab1=Politics of Georgia (country)
.
Certes (
talk)
12:43, 19 May 2020 (UTC)In UAAP Season 78, Template:UAAPathlete calls DAB page Rafael Barreto, with no obvious way of either unlinking or of redlinking as Rafael Barreto (swimmer); a pseudopipe breaks the code. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:36, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
|link=
argument, discovered by examining
Module:PHL sports team.
Certes (
talk)
14:12, 20 May 2020 (UTC)Following the addition of new templates, German politicians are currently dominating the disambiguation reports. We've been discussing the matter at User talk:Olaf Kosinsky. Certes ( talk) 22:51, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
On top of my talk page there is {{nobots|allow=SineBot}}
; yet the bot posted a message on my talk page despite this. Can anybody investigate why the bot is not complying with a template it's supposed to be compliant to? Thanks,
RandomCanadian (
talk /
contribs)
13:53, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
{{
bots|allow=SineBot}}
, it should work as expected. --
R'n'B (
call me Russ)
13:04, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
{{
nobots|allow=SineBot}}
is supposed to have the same effect as {{
bots|allow=SineBot}}
. Thanks,
RandomCanadian (
talk /
contribs)
16:06, 29 May 2020 (UTC)There's a recently created dab page at Jammu and Kashmir, with a few thousand incoming links. I'm not sure for how long this is going to stand as a disambiguation page (the question has been contentious), and it may well get turned into a redirect again, so starting to fix incoming links might not be a wise thing to do. All the more so as the articles listed there are themselves ambiguously named: Jammu and Kashmir (state) (the likely target of most links) will probably need to be moved at some point, as the other two articles listed on the dab page are also states: one of them a historic state, the other one a potential future state. – Uanfala (talk) 22:08, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Well, the Toolforge database servers seem to be having conniptions again, so I’m going to extend the May contest for at least one more day to see if they settle down. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 23:30, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
Dispenser's excellent tools can no longer be reached via info.tm but are still usable via their IP address. Certes ( talk) 11:47, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Can anyone see why the {{ dn}} tags in Raja Khishtasub Khan and Singh Khalsa are not showing as bluelinks, and also (presumably as a consequence) are not listed in Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation from March 2020?
If anyone can solve the puzzle, I suggest redating the tags to the current month. Narky Blert ( talk) 16:50, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
In Flags of country subdivisions, Template:Flagg links to the DAB page Kalinga instead of to Kalinga (province). Eiether a bluelink or a pseudopipe breaks the formatting. The Isabela entry, immediately above, is a parallel case, and works. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:13, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
|link=
. Alternatively, we could have created {{
Country data Kalinga}} modelled on {{
Country data Isabela}}, but that might be unwise if Kalinga isn't the primary term for its topic.
Certes (
talk)
14:06, 21 June 2020 (UTC)In 2019 Hart District Council election, Template:Election summary partial council net party insists that DAB page Others must be linked, and won't take <nowiki> for an answer (it breaks the formatting). Narky Blert ( talk) 16:32, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 6#Coby (Disambiguation) to which members of this WikiProject may wish to contribute. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:08, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Template:World topic is importing a link to DAB page Palestine from somewhere. See World. It should presumably be State of Palestine. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:21, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
{{ Infobox artwork}} will soon stop linking the artist's name automatically, which is good news when they are not the primary topic for the name. A bot will add [[brackets]] instead, so the change won't remove any links to dab or mislinks immediately, but it will make them easier to fix. More details here. Certes ( talk) 17:32, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
At The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa#Temples, a sub-template of {{ LDS Temple list}} is calling the DAB page Umhlanga instead of Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal. The same error is also present in List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by geographic region and List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Narky Blert ( talk) 07:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Zico has been moved to a partial disambiguation: Zico (footballer). Zico is now a dab with 1,148 incoming links. Should we fix these, revert the bold move or find another solution? Certes ( talk) 10:20, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Template:Decades and years calls the DAB page 2084 rather than 2084 CE. See 21st century for an example. It is unusual for the WP:PTOPIC for a number this large not to be the CE year; but it is 64 years in the future, and there are other full title matches. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:09, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Several royal redirects have been retargetted to dabs. I've reverted King William IV but King Henry V, King Henry VII, King William III and King Henry VI are also in the top 20 of Wikipedia's most mislinked dabs. Should the English and UK kings reclaim these primary topics, or should we get on with fixing the links? Ping: Interstellarity. Certes ( talk) 17:17, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
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@ Certes and Interstellarity: Hi. The WP:DPT (via WP:POFR) suggest different ways on how to determine primary topic and none of which are absolute meaning that the final decision must be made by a consensus. Considering that it would take sufficiently long time to compare every disab statistics with the given topics (kings) I either suggest both of you to make a substentive research on the matters and make WP:RM or just fall back to the said status quo. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 20:57, 3 July 2020 (UTC) |
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:William_IV.
Interstellarity (
talk)
01:48, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
In Communism in France, Template:Europe topic creates a link to and calls the DAB page Communism in Germany. (That concept certainly deserves an article - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and the Spartacus League spring immediately to mind.) Narky Blert ( talk) 10:31, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Greatest of All Time disambiguates one topic, not known as "Greatest of All Time". G14 suggests a redirect but this seems a little harsh. Would anyone like a go at improving it? Certes ( talk) 20:33, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
In Emperor Taizu of Jin and Emperor Jingzong of Liao, {{ Cite Cambridge History of China}} is linking to DAB page Herbert Franke in the sort of way that looks easily breakable, with all sorts of potentially entertaining side-effects, if someone who doesn't understand template tries to link to Herbert Franke (sinologist) instead. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:27, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
I have seen several of these recently, and had unthinkingly assumed that one or more editors had not been checking their links. I have now discovered an IP who has been deliberately bulk-removing the piped parts of good links. Not only DABlinks have been affected; I found an instance where a link to a film had been turned into one to Railway Station. Reversion is the easy answer.
The IP I found was 2A02:C7D:2235:800:F565:2240:84B6:8D03, which is stale; it hasn't posted since 4 July. If anyone finds another, post it here; if the <insert noun of choice> is still active, there may be a case for a rangeblock. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:13, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
I'd like to apologize for making a mess of DAB links. The common term "gas mask" seems to be used for:
This ontological confusion is also reflected on Commons. I created an article on elastomeric respirators, and decided, perhaps foolishly, that Gas mask should be a disambiguation page. After manually disambiguating the first fifty links to "gas mask" (except a few where I wasn't sure), using semantic redirects so that no-one would have to do this again if Gas masks in conflict got split into, say, a WWI article and a WWII article, I realized that there were actually 570-odd more links to go. And it seems I will have to wait until 1900 UTC to use a semi-automated tool to fix.
So apologies for making a mess, I will try to clean it up, and advice is welcome. HLHJ ( talk) 00:03, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
Per WP:RM, it is mandatory to discuss a proposed move for disambiguation prior to moving." From what I'm seeing, there's no part of WP:RM that specifically states that, but I do agree that this specific case needs discussion prior to moving. Steel1943 ( talk) 03:16, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
The bot proposal at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Usernamekiran BOT 4 may be of interest. The bot's intended task is fixing dablinks resulting from primary topic moves. – Uanfala (talk) 11:46, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Members of this project may be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Rewriting WP:FIXDABLINKS (Links to disambiguated topics. – Uanfala (talk) 14:41, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
This is slightly off-topic, but we have many surname pages with incoming links. Some of them actually describe the surname, or at least a related clan or noble family, but many are effectively disambiguation pages by another name. To take but five examples, Pirandello, Cherubini, Pevsner, Primo de Rivera and Cimarosa had on average over 50 incoming links each which were intended for a listed individual. Only a handful of links from reader-facing namespaces remain, mainly See alsos from related names. Does the team think that these pages should be converted to dabs? I have many, many other cases to be taken into consideration, and should probably consult more widely before being bold, but this seems like a good place to seek wise opinion. Certes ( talk) 16:09, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
In Victoria, Brașov, Template:Infobox Romanian subdivision automatically generates a link to DAB page Coat of arms of Victoria. Any link would be circular, and there's no point in having one at all. Narky Blert ( talk) 08:45, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Disambiguation currently mentions the Python Wikipedia Robot as a tool that may be helpful when dealing with dablinks. I'm rewriting the relevant bit of the guidelines and this mention will be dropped. It was added a very long time ago (definitely before 2007, the oldest version I checked), and I have no idea if it's still relevant. If it is, then maybe it could be listed among the tools here? – Uanfala (talk) 19:20, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
I would like to join this group. How do I do that? Buufin ( talk) 04:26, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
I've run into an issue that I don't understand, so maybe someone can help me figure this out. There are currently 6 articles listed that link to the redirect page The Island, which in turn redirects to the page Island (disambiguation). All six of these articles are pages about works of Lord Byron. However, I can't find any link to The Island on these pages - they do, however, include the Template:Lord Byron, but this template only links to The Island (Byron) and not to The Island. On top of that, not every article that has this template is listed as linking to The Island, only these six. So I have no clue what's going on here! Lennart97 ( talk) 15:06, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
Saronno railway station calls DAB page Lodi railway station, presumably as an expansion from some sub-template or other because there's no Lodi in the article. The link should be to Lodi railway station (Lombardy). Narky Blert ( talk) 07:22, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
In the infobox of Thorpe Interchange, {{jct|country=GBR|M|3}} (another of my "favourite" templates - the location of the DABlink in the article wasn't immediately obvious) expands to point to DAB page M3 motorway not M3 motorway (Great Britain). Narky Blert ( talk) 11:34, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
|dab1=
. (M8 is the example in
WP:Disambiguation pages with links/Guide#Road junctions.)
Certes (
talk)
13:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC)The page United Kingdom legislation connected with the COVID-19 pandemic has been tagged as containing multiple links to disambiguation pages but I can't seem to find them or work out how to fix this. Would appreciate if someone could take a look for me.
The Template:World topic contains a link to Palestine. This is already discussed at Template talk:World topic#Palestine but no solution since then. This is hampering our effort to clear out the links to disambiguation pages. Often a link to "subject (disambiguation)" is enough to fool the bot. Can that be used here? The Banner talk 12:04, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
country["Palestine"]
would work, as explained in the discussion linked above and
here. In particular, setting it to
Palestine (disambiguation) would change the navbox links to "Foo in Palestine (disambiguation)" etc., which rarely exist.
Certes (
talk)
13:21, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
{{ Infobox artwork}} can generate phantom links to DAB pages. In Reclining Figure, Michael Dennis displayed as a blacklink; but it showed up in the DAB page what-links-here. Fortunately, my first-guess fix of [[Michael Dennis (artist)|Michael Dennis]] cured the immediate problem. Narky Blert ( talk) 11:47, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
(ifexist(name) && name!=article_title) add_to_cat(name)
. It accepts nowiki (see e.g.
Albert Lindegger); but it's a cluttering nuisance to add, and sooner or later someone will surely remove it to make the innards of the page look cleaner.|artist=
parameter equals the article title, e.g. "
Benno Rothschild artist=Benno Rothschild".
Certes (
talk)
17:55, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
On 225088 Gonggong I diambiguated Sedna and Eris, within the templates Template:Dp and Template:Mp, to 90377 Sedna and Eris (dwarf planet) respectively. This was reverted with the edit summary "Template:Dp intends to not disambiguate these pages and lead these links to their respective minor planet articles;". I don't think this would be particularly helpful to readers interested in these topics. Would any template experts take a look and see whether this is appropriate?— Rod talk 09:09, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
In
Korea under Japanese rule, |government_type=
in {{
infobox country}} expands to include [[Politics of Korea|Government]]. Unsurprisingly,
Politics of Korea is a DAB page. More surprisingly, we have no article on Korean politics 1897-1945 (except this one itself, which covers 1910-1945). I've no idea what to do with this one beyond somehow disabling the expansion and link.
Narky Blert (
talk)
11:14, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
In
Washington Progressive Party, {{
Infobox American State Political Party}} generates a link to DAB page
Politics of Washington; perhaps from the |state=
parameter, because the template doesn't know about the ambiguity.
It might be worth checking how the template handles Georgia as well. Narky Blert ( talk) 11:21, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
|politics_link=
in the template and adding it to the article. I've amended similar articles which link to
Politics of Washington (state). The Georgia articles link to US politics and there are no relevant New York articles.
Certes (
talk)
14:59, 11 November 2020 (UTC)In
Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, {{
Infobox country at games}} autogenerates a link to DAB page
Refugee Olympic Team at the Summer Olympics (piped under "overview"). I think it's doing it through |appearances=
, but I can't work how to correct it.
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:56, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
In Religion in Oman, {{ Middle East topic}} autogenerates a link to DAB page Religion in Palestine. (I do so love those "Area topic" templates.) Narky Blert ( talk) 13:13, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
|PSlink=
parameter.
Certes (
talk)
13:32, 17 November 2020 (UTC)Both UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying and UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying Group 9, in their Goalscoring sections, link to Dragan Mladenović (should be Dragan Mladenović (footballer)), not directly but through a template construction that I can't figure out, i.e. I can't find the sourcecode where this DABlink is actually created. Help would be appreciated! Lennart97 ( talk) 15:29, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
In {{
Infobox Canada electoral district}}, |prov-rep-link=
doesn't work. See
Richard Ames in
Carleton-York.
Narky Blert (
talk)
09:15, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Those with an interest in disambiguation may be interested in the RFC - "Make links to disambiguation pages orange by default" at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Make links to disambiguation pages orange by default.— Rod talk 17:04, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Usernamekiran BOT 4 was submitted for a general authorisation to fix wikilinks to dab pages following page moves. There's already input from some associated with this project, but additional thoughts and eyes on the task would be appreciated. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 13:37, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
The |residence=
field in {{
Infobox United States legislative district}} autocompletes by adding the name of the state. This is unhelpful in e.g.
Florida's 105th House district, where
Sweetwater, Florida is a DAB page. The link should be
Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County, Florida, but the template won't accept either a pipe or a pseudopipe. It'd be possible to create
Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County; but that would result in a non-standard display.
Narky Blert (
talk)
16:06, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
|residence=Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County
is not a bad solution, as it shows which Sweetwater the representative resides in. The parameter is not used elsewhere. It doesn't need a new redirect. I can't see a better way to fix it without adding parameters to the template.
Certes (
talk)
16:54, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Category:Starfire aircraft apparently contains a link to the dab page Starfire. How can this be fixed? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 22:49, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
In List of ship launches in 1988, {{ Sclass-}} expands {{sclass-|Hendijan|support vessel}} to link to the DAB page support vessel; whereas according to Iranian support vessel Konarak the link should be to Auxiliary ship. Not for the first time, I've lost patience with this template's parameters, and invite someone else to have a go. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
{{
sclass-|class name|ship type|format|qualifier}}
. format
would have to be left blank. However, that only lets us link to a title of the form "Support vessel (qualifier)", so we'd need a new redirect such as
Support vessel (auxiliary ship).
Certes (
talk)
15:46, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Thomas Anstey Guthrie imports its infobox data from
wikidata:Q3990574. That lists his |notable_works=
as
Vice Versa, which is a DAB page. It should be
Vice Versa (novel). After a failed attempt to edit Q3990574, I gave up in disgust; I've had similar problems before, and have zero interest in learning how to edit that opaque and unforgiving interface.
Narky Blert (
talk)
07:00, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
In
Samrong BTS station, |line=
in {{
Infobox station}} autocompletes Yellow to
Yellow Line, which is a DAB page. It should be
Yellow Line (Bangkok), in whichever subtemplate it is hidden.
Narky Blert (
talk)
13:32, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Bayshore station (Caltrain) has a similar issue: under 'former services', it links to 22nd Street station, should be 22nd Street station (Caltrain). Lennart97 ( talk) 14:04, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
The DPLbot is down - I'm probably not the first to notice. But I can't quite figure out who currently maintains the bot - JaGa hasn't been active for a few weeks. R'n'B maybe? Lennart97 ( talk) 21:08, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Here's another one that I can't fix: on List of Wikipedias#Detailed list, the Western Punjabi Wikipedia entry automatically links to Western Punjabi language through Template:WP7. It should just link to Punjabi language, but I don't see any options for disambiguation in the template. Lennart97 ( talk) 22:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying Group 2 and UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying generate a link to the ambiguous redirect József Horváth (footballer) using an impenetrable piece of syntax I hadn't seen before - look in the Goalscorers sections. The link should be to József Horváth (footballer, born 1949). Enough to convince me to stop for the day. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:59, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
In
Bamberg station, {{
s-line}} links to DAB page
Lichtenfels, but |link1=
doesn't work.
Sonneberg (Thür) Hauptbahnhof links to the same DAB page, by a means I'm unable to determine.
The correct link in both cases would be Lichtenfels station. Narky Blert ( talk) 09:53, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Could someone please check why United Airlines Flight 811 links to the disambiguation page Si? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 18:31, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
In Manohar Tirkey, {{ Lok Sabha succession box}} links to DAB page Alipurduars, and my attempts to pipe it to Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency) have yielded only unstylish results. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:31, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
The Community Wishlist Survey results are in. A suggestion to warn when linking to disambiguation pages finished in second place. A proposal to replace Dabfix was less popular. Certes ( talk) 14:23, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
List of snooker players by number of ranking titles links to DAB page
Canadian Masters; it should be to
Canadian Masters (snooker). I suspect it's through |cm=
in {{
Snooker ranking title winners}} (that wasn't easy to find).
Narky Blert (
talk)
13:15, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
The DAB solver has been down for a few days already now. Since not even its homepage will load, I have no idea who is responsible for this tool, but I'm assuming there's someone here who knows! Lennart97 ( talk) 13:44, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
In Kartar Singh Tanwar, {{ IN Assembly succession box}} expands Chhatarpur to Chhatarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency), which is both ambiguous and unpiped. The correct link is Chhatarpur (Delhi Assembly constituency). Narky Blert ( talk) 14:18, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Could someone please help me understand why my 260+ edits on January 1 to fix disambiguation pages such as Midnight Star and Naval Intelligence Division are not included in January's leaderboard? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 21:34, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
In Cranbourne East railway station, {{ Infobox station}} calls DAB page Clyde railway station instead of Clyde railway station, Victoria. It look as if another editor may have tried to fix the problem using an unnamed parameter; I have no idea what's going on. Narky Blert ( talk) 16:08, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Portal:Rock music/Selected genres/11 apparently has a link to heavy metal, but I can't find it there or in Glam metal. Could one of you please let me know what I'm missing? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 23:28, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Yet another problem with one of these one size-fits-all templates. In Ecozones of Canada, {{ North America topic}} expands "Canada" to Ecoregions of Canada, which is a DAB page. The link in the article should be circular, and therefore black bold. The only even partial solution I can see would be to turn the DAB page into an SIA; which would be thoroughly unsatisfactory, because one of the two entries is national and the other international. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:52, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Before implementing these templates in a topic, check for red links.I wonder if we should produce a custom navbox instead. Certes ( talk) 15:58, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
In Democratic Party of Georgia, {{ Infobox political party}} fails to distinguish between the country and the US state, twice; and the bluelink to List of political parties in Georgia is "inappropriate". Narky Blert ( talk) 16:39, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone work out what is going on with Template:Kansas House of Representatives? Several dab links to people included on the template were fixed several days ago and yet it still occurs over 100 times on Articles With Multiple Dablinks. I have tried opening the collasped template on each article & tried (unsuccesfully) to do a null edit to purge the cache. Ideas welcome.— Rod talk 09:23, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
2017–18 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim season links to DAB page Fransérgio. The link should be to Fransérgio Barbosa. It's hidden at 2017–18 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim season#Group stage, in a 2nd- or 3rd-level subtemplate of {{ Bundesliga matches}}. Having wasted 10 minutes getting that far, my patience ran out. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:05, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone find the DABlink to Germany national ice hockey team in 2020 Deutschland Cup? It doesn't show orange in view mode, and a search for "ger" in edit mode turned up nothing obvious. A WP:NULLEDIT didn't clear the link-in. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:51, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
In Government of China, {{ Asia topic}} calls DAB page Government of Taiwan. It looks superficially as if the problem could be solved by replacing "Taiwan" with "Republic of China" in the template, but I'm nervous of unintended consequences. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:02, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
|TW=Government of the Republic of China
.
Certes (
talk)
15:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)On May 1976, template:Calendar links to June 1976, while it should link to June 1976 (month). I've tried fixing that using the template's parameters, but either those don't work, or I'm doing it wrong. Lennart97 ( talk) 12:46, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
In
Theophilus Jones (soldier), |parliament3=
in {{
Infobox MP}} expands "Irish" to
Irish parliament; which to no-one's surprise is a DAB page. The link should be to
Parliament of Ireland.
Narky Blert (
talk)
15:27, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
The infobox in Kulmbach station calls the DAB page Lichtenfels. The link should be to Lichtenfels station. Narky Blert ( talk) 08:45, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
On Wisconsin Highway 150 there are links to Winchester and Clayton which should be Winchester, Winnebago County, Wisconsin and Clayton, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. The links are burried in Template:WIint where I can't see anything to edit, within Template:Jcttop. I have tried using "|ctdab=" but doesn't seem to work when there is both a county and state - I have given up.— Rod talk 12:03, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Somehow, The 5 Search links to The 6, which redirects to DAB page The Six. I've gone over every mention of the number 6 in the article and I cannot find the link. Lennart97 ( talk) 16:09, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
getNextSeasonArticle
function in
Module:Infobox television season name attempts to find a following season by incrementing the number (and dropping trailing text, for some reason). It thus looks for a sequel called The 6, which happens to redirect to a dab with no relevant entry. I don't see any easy way to get rid of the link.
Certes (
talk)
17:29, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
I've come across this particular problem with this template before. {{
Infobox attraction}} automatically wikilinks |manufacturer=
; which can produce some remarkably silly results, e.g.
various. The trick is to use |manufacturers=
instead. See
Pirates of the Caribbean (attraction) for an example.
Narky Blert (
talk)
04:29, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at Tank farm - is it/should it be a dab page?— Rod talk 12:19, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Members of and visitors to this WikiProject are invited to comment on and to contribute to a new WikiProject - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bluelink patrol. The founders think that it complements but in no way infringes on any existing WikiProject - and also, that we cannot have got everything right. Narky Blert ( talk) 22:02, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
I can't find the link to New Bridge on this page. There are no templates or other structures it could be hiding in. Where is it? Lennart97 ( talk) 14:07, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
In List of U.S. Routes in Washington#Special routes, the very first entry in the table, which currently links to U.S. Route 10 Alternate (Washington), should link to U.S. Route 10 Alternate (Washington-Montana). There's a |dab= tag, but I can't use it to link correctly as ", Washington" is automatically added to the end of the link. Is there a way to fix this? Lennart97 ( talk) 14:32, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
|type=US-Alt-plain
for {{
Routelist row}} in Washington, and deploying it in
List of U.S. Routes in Washington#Special routes.
Certes (
talk)
15:53, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
Another one, but different. Iron (metaphor) links to Iron Lady (disambiguation), intentionally and explicitly, as it should. For some reason, the monthly list still registers it as a DABlink needing fixing. Why could this be? Lennart97 ( talk) 16:18, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
There's a set of redirects, with many incoming links, titled "National Highway xxx" (e.g. National Highway 44), which are mostly redirects to pages in Category:Lists of roads sharing the same title. These are disambiguation pages in all but name, and need attention. Is there some way they could be added to this list of disambig pages with links? Colonies Chris ( talk) 23:47, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
At Huaihua South railway station, in the adjacent stations template, the next station should link to Zhijiang railway station (Hunan), not to Zhijiang railway station. Lennart97 ( talk) 08:28, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
The redirect 2020-21 Georgia US Senate runoff, while redirecting to 2020–21 United States Senate runoff in Georgia as it should, somehow contains a link to 2020–21 Georgia US Senate runoff (endash instead of hyphen), another redirect. I thought I had fixed it with this edit, but the link still appears in Special:Whatlinkshere/2020–21 United States Senate runoff in Georgia. As this link is in mainspace, it's preventing the runoffs DAB page to move from this month's "To do" to "Done". Can anyone figure out what causes this link? Lennart97 ( talk) 16:07, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
This redirect is a modification of: 2020–21 United States Senate runoff in Georgia.caused by placing a link (via {{ -r}}) within {{ R from modification}}. Using simple text rather than -r would solve the problem at the cost of making the wikilink unavailable in the redirect's reason box. Certes ( talk) 17:58, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
@ R'n'B: I'm not sure how your daily update of the monthly to do list works, but I assume it's automated in some way. Do you know why 2020–21 United States Senate runoff in Georgia is still listed as 'to do', while there really are no links to it now in mainspace? The same goes for Congo, by the way; nothing links there, but it's still under 'to do'. Lennart97 ( talk) 15:21, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
British Rail Class 59 contains a link to British Rail Class 70 (should be British Rail Class 70 (diesel)) through Template:BRC, which doesn't seem to have a dab parameter. This particular link is easily solved by simply not using the template, but it would be even better to give the template a dab parameter. Lennart97 ( talk) 15:58, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
|dab=diesel
.
Certes (
talk)
19:03, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
A subtemplate in {{ Infobox station}} in Oberstdorf station and 7 other articles is calling the ambiguous redirect Kempten station. It should link to Kempten (Allgäu) Hauptbahnhof. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:22, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
After a recent WP:RM, Cooperative gameplay needs retargetting from few hundred/thousand articles from the Cooperative game disambig to Cooperative video game. This is the usage in what seems to be 99% remaining cases. Even if the bot makes a few errors, those can be fixed on a case by case basis later. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:55, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Template:jct has a problem with
Interstate 87: if it's told |state=
Quebec, the link defaults to the DAB page. Affected articles -
Quebec Autoroute 10,
Quebec Autoroute 20,
Quebec Autoroute 30,
Quebec Autoroute 930 and
State Route 314 (New York–Vermont). Typical syntax, from the last of those articles, {{jct|state=QC|I|87|A|15|to2=yes|location1=[[Montreal]]|location2=[[Albany, NY|Albany]]}}.
Narky Blert (
talk)
11:05, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
The infobox of Elk River station links to Ramsey railway station whereas it should link to Ramsey station (Metro Transit). It does so at 'former services'. What confuses me is that under '[current] services' the link is fixed with a |link2= parameter, but this fix doesn't work for 'former services', even though it uses the very same Template:Adjacent stations. I must be missing something. Lennart97 ( talk) 14:08, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
|link2=Ramsey station (Metro Transit)
to the second {{
Adjacent stations}} worked for me too (in preview, at least).
Certes (
talk)
14:29, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
In Juyongguan railway station and Nankou railway station, {{ Adjacent stations}} links to DAB page Dongyuan railway station instead of Dongyuan railway station (Beijing). Narky Blert ( talk) 14:38, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
I've come across a couple of widely used links to articles that aren't strictly speaking dab pages, but which contain more specific sublinks; the original links could be tightened to go there directly.
On various radio station infoboxes Template:Val is used for power & when the unit "ul=" is "watts" it links to the dab page Watts. Is it possible to make this link to Watt?— Rod talk 16:28, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Another station template I can't get my head around. Template:Chongqing Rail Transit Station uses Template:CRTs which calls Template:Station link but trying to sort the link to International Expo Center station & make it find International Expo Center station (Chongqing Rail Transit) is beyond me.— Rod talk 12:01, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
At Global Hunger Index#Country rankings, Template:GHI generates a link to Famine in Sudan, a disambiguation page. I don't know how it does this, or how to change the link target. I'm also not completely sure what the link target should be, but I think an intentional dablink to Famine in Sudan (disambiguation) is the best solution, as two out of three entries on the dab page are relevant to Sudan and it's not really a problem that the third one isn't. Lennart97 ( talk) 15:42, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
He survived the famine in Sudan.However, the page does list distinct events. It's not a Transport in Georgia, but it may be a Siege of Vienna or an Athens Olympics. Certes ( talk) 23:26, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I am ever-learning here. Feeling good, mostly. Yesterday as part of some edits I added a specific link, which is also pointed to by a disambiguation page.
But looking at the disambiguation page, I saw it had relatively few out links, and multiple others were relevant to what I wanted, so ... the following is what I wrote, although below I disable endfootnote template (see Carl Jung) Archetypal images, also referred to as motifs in mythology ((efn-la|Also see general disambiguation of 'motif', covering visual arts, narrative, etcetera)), are universal symbols
I have found WP:HOWTODAB but is there another way? I am merely asking if it's technically possible. I would prefer the text the particular readable form as I wrote, which included the word but not parentheses, before even knowing this was a guideline/rule. I will rewrite it anyway with (disambiguation). Perhaps something exists like [ [:disamb:Motif#General%20concepts|general disambiguation of 'motif' ] ]... just curious. Tomacpace ( talk) 07:21, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
In List of presidents of Germany, {{ Officeholder table}} calls the DAB page None, and thee seems no obvious way to stop it (nowiki doesn't work). Narky Blert ( talk) 14:37, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
In Changle East railway station, {{ Adjacent stations}} calls DAB page Changle railway station with no obvious way to disambiguate to Changle railway station (Fujian). The same problem will occur in Fuzhou railway station if someone gets around to adding the template to that. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:31, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
I am having trouble working out how to disambiguate links using Template:MOSMETRO stations.
I have fiddled about for ages trying to fix them but with no documentation I'm struggling. Can anyone help?— Rod talk 07:58, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
A transclusion in 2020 Liga 2 (Indonesia)#West region is calling redirect-to-DAB 2021 Liga 1 rather than 2021 Liga 1 (Indonesia). Narky Blert ( talk) 14:20, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
A template in an infobox in Kuntsevskaya (Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya and Filyovskaya lines) (under "Route Map") is calling three DAB pages - Kiyevskaya, Smolenskaya and Arbatskaya. In each case, the link needs the qualifier (Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line), as in the upper part of the infobox. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:21, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
Don Quarrie links to DAB page Carl Lawson instead of Carl Lawson (sprinter). I think the link may be in {{ Footer Commonwealth Champions 4x100 m Men}} (title in the article - Commonwealth Games champions in men's 4 × 100 metres relay), but it's well-hidden: the contents of the template are different in the article from when it is viewed, and WP:NULLEDITs on both did nothing. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:05, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
Smooth Radio is currently the dab with most incoming links, by some distance. However, the editor who moved Smooth Radio (2014) has been blocked, and reversion may be in order before anyone spends time fixing links. I've left a query on its talk page. Certes ( talk) 00:48, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
In Fuzhou railway station, {{ Adjacent stations}} links to DAB page Doumen station instead of Doumen station (Fuzhou Metro). Not for the first time, there is no documented means of disambiguation. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:38, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
{{ GHI}} employs intricate features of template syntax. One feature it does not employ is an obvious way to link to DAB pages through the (disambiguation) qualifier; see the entry for Sudan in Global Hunger Index. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:24, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Something in the formatting of what appear to be transclusion tags in Edwards (surname) is making the page show up as linked from a bunch of disambiguation pages. This needs to be fixed, if someone knows how. I haven't seen this formatting anywhere else in the encyclopedia, so perhaps it should be removed. BD2412 T 18:34, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
{{#section:Alexander Edwards (disambiguation)|alex}}
. The dabs contain tags such as <section begin=alex />...<section end=alex />
. This mechanism counts as transclusion links for the purposes of WhatLinksHere etc.
Certes (
talk)
21:51, 24 May 2021 (UTC)There are several dab links to CGCG which seem to orginate with articles using Template:Odlist. These should point to Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies but I can't see how to make this work in the template.— Rod talk 16:41, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Unless we pick it up over the next 24 hours, it looks like we are going to get barely more than half of the May 2021 list completed. BD2412 T 19:42, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
FC Steaua București is currently our most-linked dab. This old club's history is claimed by two rival current clubs, and a court decision has gone to penalty shoot-out appeal. We may soon be able to replace the dab by a redirect to the winner. Previous discussion:
Talk:FCSB.
Certes (
talk)
22:56, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
Today's report is dominated by links to new "[year] college football season" disambiguation pages, thousands of links altogether. I've brought this up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football. I hope they can confirm whether or not this new setup is valid in the first place, and if it is, help clean up the links. Lennart97 ( talk) 08:14, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
A lot of dablinks to Palestine have been popping up lately. Of these, a significant number comes from IPs going around indiscriminately changing " Israel" to " Palestine". This might be nothing new, but I hadn't encountered it before. Anyway, when you encounter a link to Palestine, it might be worthwhile to first check whether it needs fixing or just reverting. Lennart97 ( talk) 12:51, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
In Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics, {{ infobox country at games}} calls DAB page Korea at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The same infobox also calls redlinks in the range 1924-1936 (when the country was united), redirects such as Korea at the 1948 Winter Olympics → South Korea at the 1948 Winter Olympics, and post-1948 redlinks. The links are all buried somewhere. I'm not at all sure what to do with this problem, because AFAIK, 2018 is the only occasion when North and South Korea have fielded a unified team, and then only in ice hockey. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:58, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
2020 in cycling and 2021 in cycling both attract a significant of links through {{ Year nav sports topic5}}. This can probably be solved by amending said template to include the men's and women's articles separately, but I'm not sure how to best do that. Lennart97 ( talk) 13:05, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
There are about 340 pages that link to The National Archives; a rough visual check suggests that 90% of them should be piped to The National Archives (United Kingdom). Colonies Chris ( talk) 20:23, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
I am confused about Template:Infobox political party. When used on Progress and Freedom it generates links to the dab pages Politics of Georgia & Elections in Georgia both of which should link to the country articles (rather than the US state) but I can't work out how to fix this.— Rod talk 11:39, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
Greenspond links to DAB page Puffin Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, apparently by a Wikidata call (see the infobox titled Puffin Island Lighthouse). wikidata:Q106305249 and wikidata:Q22618904 may be involved. The link should either be to Puffin Island (Greenspond), Newfoundland and Labrador (a redirect to Greenspond; currently not tagged {{ R with possibilities}}) or removed.
Q106305249 relates to Puffin Island Lighthouse and thus Greenspond. If the coordinates in ceb:Puffin Island (pulo sa Kanada, Newfoundland and Labrador, lat 47,52, long -57,38) can be trusted, Q22618904 relates to neither of the islands on the enwiki DAB page. FWIW (IMO, not very much), judging from the coordinates, the island near Greenspond could be any of ceb:Puffin Island (pulo sa Kanada, Newfoundland and Labrador, lat 49,17, long -53,48), ceb:Puffin Island (pulo sa Kanada, Newfoundland and Labrador, lat 49,12, long -53,56) and ceb:Puffin Island (pulo sa Kanada, Newfoundland and Labrador, lat 49,07, long -53,55), at least. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:53, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
In
South Gippsland Highway#Major intersections and towns, the parameter |LGAS=
in {{
VICint}} expands "South Gippsland" to
Shire of South Gippsland. As is often the way with such labour-saving templates, there is no obvious way of correcting the link to
South Gippsland Shire.
Narky Blert (
talk)
13:37, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
|LGA-S=
with a hyphen adds Shire after instead of before.
Certes (
talk)
14:22, 9 July 2021 (UTC)As a result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Circa, a few thousand articles now link to the disambiguation page circa, mostly in the form [[circa|c.]]. What to do with these links? Replace them all by {{ circa}} ( c.)? Lennart97 ( talk) 19:20, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
|lk=on
:
c.
Certes (
talk)
01:52, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
|lk=on
produces
c. with a clickable wikilink to Wiktionary. If desired, we could combine the two features into
c., perhaps via a new parameter to {{
circa}} or a simple new template.
Certes (
talk)
13:08, 12 July 2021 (UTC)The title of a disambiguation page is the ambiguous term itself, provided there is no primary topic for that term.Since there is no primary topic anymore, the name of the disambiguation page should thus be Circa. Lennart97 ( talk) 17:38, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
In the 4 articles
Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services,
United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, |alt_party=
in {{
Officeholder table}} links to DAB page
Unknown, and there is no obvious way of stopping it.
({{
Infobox election}} has |party_name=
which can be set to "no"; see
2022 Italian presidential election.)
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:08, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
|alt_party=?
(and I removed "unknown" as a birth date etc.).
Certes (
talk)
15:22, 16 July 2021 (UTC)UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying Group 2 and UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying link to DAB page José Luís instead of José Luís (footballer, born 1958), by some sort of transclusion I don't understand. Narky Blert ( talk) 07:13, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
In
2021 Vijayawada Municipal Corporation election, |party5=
in {{
Infobox election}} links to DAB page
Others, and I could find obvious of way stopping it. Setting |party_name=
to "no" is indiscriminate, and |partyx_name=
or |party_namex=
seem not to exist. (cf.
#Template:Officeholder table, above.)
(I solved the problem of the link to 64 by deleting the number.) Narky Blert ( talk) 08:09, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
Following my proposal in the community wish list, which got the second highest number of votes, the community tech team have started to consider this at meta:Community Tech/Warn when linking to disambiguation pages & some discussion has stared on the talk page there. Interested editors (especially those with more technical knowledge than me), may want to get involved so that whatever solution is developed helps to reduce the number of unwanted dab links created.— Rod talk 20:46, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
In articles using Template:Infobox tennis tournament year (eg 2007 Dutch Open (tennis) the infobox creates links to previous and next years. Where there is more than one "open" eg tennis and darts this then links to the dab page. Is there any way to make this explicit to tennis within the template?— Rod talk 07:49, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi All, dabsolver seems to have been down for me for more than a couple of days; is this a problem that other people have encountered and if so does anyone have a workaround or know when it might be back online? Thanks - Furius ( talk) 01:44, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
In Privatization in Croatia and Privatization in Russia, {{ Europe topic}} (under the title Privatization in Europe) links to DAB page Privatization in Poland. I have no idea what the link should even be; Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń on the DAB page seems to be about something else. Narky Blert ( talk) 09:47, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
In Government of Bangladesh, {{ Asia topic}} masquerading as Government of Asia calls DAB page Government of Taiwan instead of Government of the Republic of China. Changing Taiwan to Republic of China in the template would solve this problem, but with unknown side effects. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:13, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi there. I recently disambiguated Hyperinflation in Yugoslavia, and I believe the preponderance of links are now unambigous, but the Special WhatLinksHere output looks like a trainwreck because we used to have this term linked from a template which was in turn linked from two other templates. This was long since fixed, but the statistics are screwed up. Is there a way to trigger a flush so this gets updated? It's been a while now and I'm worried that this recursive flush isn't going to be triggered at all (seems like a very complex operation on the scale of enwiki). Will we have to resort to a huge series of null edits? -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 18:21, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
Even some of the most experienced editors have no clue at all about this policy. I just now had to ask an editor who is in the edit count top 50 to stop removing the intentional "(disambiguation)"s from hatnotes. Some time ago, I had the same issue with a highly experienced admin. Is there anything at all we can do about this? Lennart97 ( talk) 10:22, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
Undid good-faith revision 1234567890 by User:Should know better per WP:INTDABand hope it sinks in. Certes ( talk) 11:23, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
I come as someone who is in between your two -- an admin with a decent edit history, but a long break between active periods. When I was confused, Niceguydc was super helpful in explaining what (in my opinion) wasn't clear from the edit & its summary. Is there any way the automated? summary can include info on the intentional links together with "You Can Help"? Lennart97 that's sad that you haven't found the response to be worth the effort. I feel like we should all want to improve our editing. This also seems to be an easier thing to get right than citation errors, where I've given up admittedly. Star Mississippi 00:44, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Looking beyond the very productive discussion here, it sort of seems to me like at least the basics of WP:INTDAB should be covered, or at least referenced, or at least linked to, from MOS:LINK, as that section of WP:DAB is really much more about linking than about disambiguation, even though it's currently "housed" in the Disambiguation article.
I don't think it's too controversial to suggest that far more editors read MOS:LINK than will ever read WP:DAB, and even editors who end up reading both nearly always read MOS:LINK long before they get to WP:DAB. So maybe WP:INTDAB needs to be treated as part of the linking policy, not the disambiguation policy.
Currently, in terms of DAB-related coverage, MOS:LINK has: a note in the lead that points to WP:DAB "For links on disambiguation pages" (accidentally implying that it wouldn't be relevant in WP:INTDAB-type situations); the last bullet point of MOS:LINKEXAMPLES which is no help at all in this context (actually the way it's currently written it doesn't seem like it would be particularly helpful in any context); and finally there's a link in "See Also" that leads to Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages, for the brave souls who make it that far. That's, surprisingly, kind of all there is to be found. No real guidance regarding WP:INTDAB situations is even hinted at anywhere in MOS:LINK, which I have a feeling is why WP:INTDAB has managed to stealth a lot of the community's radar. -- FeRDNYC ( talk) 05:54, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
In Christy Tyrrell, {{ Infobox GAA player}} calls DAB page All-Ireland Senior Championship rather than All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.
I recall seeing a problem with this template before; but that was with a couple of dual-code players; see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links/Archive 15#Infobox GAA player. Narky Blert ( talk) 07:36, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
|code=Football
. The previous problem was different. The template still doesn't handle female dual-code players: it assumes that they play hurling and football rather than camogie and "
ladies football", which is a separate sport for the purposes of article title semantics.
Certes (
talk)
08:06, 7 August 2021 (UTC)A revision tag may soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. Further details: m:Tech/News/2021/33. Certes ( talk) 20:13, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
Does anyone feel like turning Famine in Sudan from a DAB into a BCA? Cf. Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links/Archive 15#Famine in Sudan, March 2021. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:44, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
In Punjab Province (British India), {{ Infobox Former Subdivision}} calls DAB page Flag of Punjab by devious means. A difficulty is that Punjab under the Raj did not have its own flag, but used File:British Raj Red Ensign.svg; see Star of India (flag)#Red Ensign. This could be a case for Put Out Fewer Flags. Narky Blert ( talk) 09:05, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
|common_name=
might fix things, but the template uses that parameter in 54 places and it might require a lot of unintuitive fiddling to preserver other parts of the infobox.
Certes (
talk)
11:15, 26 August 2021 (UTC)|flag=Star of India (flag)#Red Ensign
to link to the section.
Certes (
talk)
14:23, 26 August 2021 (UTC)I don't think I've seen this before. In
Latin theta, {{
Latin script}} was calling 117(±) DAB pages of two-letter combinations. After some
WP:NULLEDITs did nothing, I
RTFMed and added |show pairs=
no .
Narky Blert (
talk)
12:18, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
|show pairs=
defaults to yes
for {{
Latin script|A–Z}}
and no
for other characters including a–z, so the other articles which may be affected are
Carolingian G and
H with descender.
Certes (
talk)
13:45, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
|-
. They look fine to me. On experimenting, taking out -
made no difference but taking out |
as well unleashed the forces of hell. A rare instance of a template where an undefined closing parameter has an useful effect.
Narky Blert (
talk)
04:49, 30 August 2021 (UTC)I invite members of this WikiProject to participate at Talk:Gestalt#Whether to include certain entries. The issue is whether the entries identifiable from this edit should or should not be included on the DAB page. Narky Blert ( talk) 19:39, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
In
Tremont station (Massachusetts), {{
Infobox station}} calls DAB page
Fairhaven station; I suspect through |line6=
, and guess from internal evidence that the station (for which we have no article) should be
Fairhaven station (Massachusetts).
Narky Blert (
talk)
12:43, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone see where Korea is linking to DAB page Politics of Korea? I can't see it and have WP:NULLEDITed the article and templates, but it refuses to go away. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:24, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
|politics_link=
parameter set to a suitable target. I'm not sure what that target should be. Previous discussion:
WT:Disambiguation pages with links/Archive 15#Phantom links to DAB pages.
Certes (
talk)
14:20, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
In
Seoul Samsung Thunders and
Aomori Wat's, {{
player3}} is reluctant to accept disambiguators for
Michael Craig and
Kim Tae-hyung. |dab=
does nothing with |name=
; nor does |link=
. Changing to the commoner |first=
|last=
|dab=
format results in blacklinks, which may or may not be an improvement over redlinks.
Narky Blert (
talk)
11:13, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
|name=
parameter in this template should be deprecated; it's clearly broken. And the blacklinks for non-existent articles appear to be by design, although I'm not sure why that choice was made. --
R'n'B (
call me Russ)
19:08, 25 September 2021 (UTC)|name=
with either |dab=
or |link=
. For links made before 2018, the article editor will have been able to check the result with a working template, so most such links should fix themselves after the template is mended, whether by reverting or by making name behave similarly to first+last.
Certes (
talk)
13:50, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
In Global Hunger Index, {{ GHI}} expnands Sudan to Famine in Sudan. One solution could be turn that DAB page into a WP:BCA or WP:SIA. Thoughts? Narky Blert ( talk) 12:48, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
The infobox in Eye of the Beholder (video game) calls Eye Of The Beholder (a miscapitalised redirect to the DAB page Eye of the Beholder) by way of wikidata:Q1385731. There were three games in the original series (I've just added the second and third to the DAB page), but there is no article about it. Deletion from Q1385731 might be the answer; but I throw my hands up and the question over. Narky Blert ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 18:06, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
I have listed Public-benefit corporation for deletion. I think this is a case where it is better to have no disambiguation page at all, and let the articles explain the distinction. BD2412 T 05:51, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
6 pages link to the ambiguous redirect Wendell (footballer), seemingly through subpages of {{ Bundesliga matches}} - DPwL link. As usual, I haven't the foggiest idea how to find them. The intended link is probably Wendell (footballer, born 1993), who played for Bayer Leverkusen 2014-2021; but without seeing the transcluded text I can't be sure. Narky Blert ( talk) 14:01, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone here confidently disambiguate links to college football seasons? My plea at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject American football#Ambiguous links to college football seasons (18/26 September 2021) has received no response whatsoever, and at least one more ambiguous link (in 1958 Little All-America college football team) has accumulated since then. Narky Blert ( talk) 01:32, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
In 988, 989 and 990, {{ Year nav}} links to DAB page Eiso instead of Eiso (era). Narky Blert ( talk) 14:10, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
In Karakalpakstan, {{ Infobox country}} calls DAB page Flag of Karakalpakstan. For added interest, we have no article and any link would be circular. Narky Blert ( talk) 14:25, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
|flag_type_article=Flag of the Republic of Karakalpakstan
(and |symbol_type_article=Coat of arms of the Republic of Karakalpakstan
to avoid linking to the Soviet emblem).
Certes (
talk)
16:07, 13 November 2021 (UTC)It has been proposed at Talk:Orthodox Church#Strongly reducing the list that "Orthodox Church" be turned into a disambiguation page, with the disambiguation project being left the task of repairing the 1,000+ incoming links that would result from that change. BD2412 T 03:24, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
I am trying to get my head around Template:Hindu festival date. Most of those at Dablink list for Karthika should probably link to Kārtika (month) but the template seems to use a different spelling and I have no idea how to edit it.— Rod talk 13:46, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
My close of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 24 § Megalomania has created, at time of writing, 359 links to DAB pages. It's a bit of an unusual case because most of those links shouldn't have existed in the first place, at least not for the past five years where that page redirected to Narcissistic personality disorder. (After all, an article describing Alexander the Great as having exhibited megalomania is presumably not trying to diagnose him with a modern-day condition, which would be WP:OR.) That leaves the question of how to handle these... For the few I've tackled so far, I've linked to Wiktionary, but I'm not sure if that's the best course of action, or if it would be better to just unlink. I'm sure there are cases where linking to NPD would be justified, just not the ones I've checked so far. Or perhaps some should be piped to things like despotism. I'm off to bed, but thought I'd raise this here before it hits the dabfix list and leads to a bunch of dabfixers all trying to fix this different ways. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 09:58, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
Could someone who is good with templates take a look at Template:Election box candidate with party link? Is it possible to change the defaults for "party".
Any help appreciated.— Rod talk 10:24, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
On 16 December Template:London Broncos was edited by User:Natg 19 to remove 2 dab links. I waited a few days expecting this to work its way through the system but on 27 December there are still around 30 articles on the list Articles With Multiple Dablinks where there are no obvious dab links & all the articles reference this template. Could someone take a look and tell me what I am missing?— Rod talk 20:27, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
A new pop up asking editors who are trying to add a link to a dab page went live yesterday. This is a result of this nomionation to the community wishlist survey a year ago. It will be interesting to see if this has an effect on the number of dab links created each day.— Rod talk 08:38, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Something on Template:Infobox hospital is generating a link to List of hospitals in the United Kingdom in 53 cases. Could this either be made a rediect to the dab page or changed in some way to link to the specific lists for England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland as appropriate? The code is beyond me and I can't see any way to change this.— Rod talk 21:26, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
|Country=United Kingdom
to |Country=England
.
Certes (
talk)
22:16, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
As far as I can see there is no such thing as a bonus list anymore for the monthly challenge – the link just redirects to the regular monthly list. Can I remove it? What was the bonus list, anyway?
Also, under Current disambiguation collaborations, "Disambiguation pages with missing links" appears to be defunct; for me at least the link has never worked. Lennart97 ( talk) 21:19, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Only back a day, and it's like I've never been away. The infoboxes in 1983 Dallas Open, 1983 Dallas Open – Doubles and 1983 Dallas Open – Singles call DAB page Dallas Open (tennis) rather than Dallas Open (1983), in one of those template-related ways I cannot be bothered to work out. Narky Blert (alt) ( talk) 16:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
In Xujiapeng station and two other articles, {{WHM stations|Science Park}} inside {{ Wuhan Metro}} links to DAB page Science Park station; I imagine the correct redlink would be Science Park station (Wuhan Metro). Narky Blert (alt) ( talk) 08:31, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
On Privatization in Croatia and Privatization in Russia a nested navbox at the bottom headed "Privatization in Europe" links to the dab Privatization in Poland. When you try to view (or edit) the template it goes to Template:Europe topic. I have no idea how to fix these or (safely) edit this template - help appreciated.— Rod talk 14:09, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Augsburg Hauptbahnhof and Freilassing station link to DAB pages Berlin station and Binz station, buried in a template. Narky Blert (alt) ( talk) 13:29, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
There are several occurances of Template:Speedway event 20heats/rider in the list at Disambig fix list for Unia Tarnów. They have a link shown as (TAR) to Unia Tarnów which should link to Unia Tarnów (motorcycle speedway). The lack of template documentation means I have no idea how to tackle this.— Rod talk 11:25, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
Can anyone work out how 2022 FC Astana season and FC Dinamo Samarqand are calling DAB page National football team (and if found, what to do about it)? Narky Blert ( talk) 10:25, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
The European League of Football (gridiron) presents potential problems. Its franchises share names with those of the defunct NFL Europe, e.g. such as Cologne Centurions (ELF) vs Cologne Centurions (NFL Europe). Titles affected are Barcelona Dragons, Berlin Thunder, Cologne Centurions, Frankfurt Galaxy, Hamburg Sea Devils and Rhein Fire. Two of these are dabs; four redirect to defunct clubs which may no longer be primary topics. Any thoughts? Certes ( talk) 11:58, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
I ahve been looking at Template:XA stations to try to fix links to Huizhanzhongxin station (list here) but I am a bit stuck - any help appreciated.— Rod talk 16:31, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
station (Xi'an Metro)
list and creating
Huizhan Zhongxin station (Xi'an Metro) as a redirect.
eviolite
(talk)
17:12, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
In Bergen auf Rügen station, Ostseebad Binz station, Stralsund Hauptbahnhof and Velgast station, {{ Adjacent stations}} expands "Koblenz or Stuttgart" to " Koblenz or Stuttgart Hbf". I'm impressed by the ingenuity with which the template handles a double parameter, less so that one of the expansions points to the DAB page Koblenz railway station. The main text in all four articles makes it clear that all links should be to Koblenz Hauptbahnhof. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:43, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
{{ WA road routes}} calls, by non-obvious means, DAB page Old Coast Road. This entry is a duplicate of Forrest Highway, immediately after it, and IMO it should be deleted; see e.g. Brand Highway. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:14, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Does anyone have an easy way to do lots of null edits - perhaps using AWB or similar? I believe all the 215 articles on Disambig fix list for Ana have links to Template:Hum TV Programs. This had a dab fix a few days ago, but (presumably because of caching issues) they have not dissapeared from the list. I did over 100 null edits recently for a similar situation and it is a bit of a pain (which may be becoming more frequent for some reason), and wondered if someone could help (I have not got on with AWB but someone more expert may be able to do this).— Rod talk 16:12, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Hey, I was wondering how the DAB Challenge leaderboard worked. I know I've corrected more than ten dablinks that have shown up on reports (both with AWB and with dab fixer), but I'm still not on it. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 01:58, 16 March 2022 (UTC) (ETA word at 01:58, 16 March 2022 (UTC))
Per the recently elapsed WP:RM discussion, I have now moved the disambiguation page, "Hollywood", to Hollywood. There are some 10,000 links to fix, and a cursory start indicates that intended targets are neatly mixed between the locality, Hollywood, Los Angeles, and the abstraction Hollywood (film industry), with a smattering of other targets popping up. BD2412 T 18:29, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
List of learned societies in Australia links to DAB page Barton. The link should be Barton, Australian Capital Territory. This needs an edit to wikidata:Q5377913, and I seriously cannot be arsed to struggle to work out how to make it. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:40, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Another head scratcher I can't quite understand. We have both Carignano & Carignano (disambiguation) with one duplicate & no links between them. I've only noticed this when looking at Disambig fix list for Carignano & trying to work out where they should go (a lot should be House of Savoy-Carignano but this can't be seen on Carignano). I am easily confused.— Rod talk 16:47, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
There are currenty quite a few dab links to Civil court which redirects to Civil law but there are also some to Civil Court which redirects to Lawsuit. Often on the Disambig fix list for Civil law I am unsure what should be going where - is anyone more knowledgeable able to help?— Rod talk 15:49, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
In
Garrison station (Metro-North), |other_services=
calls DAB page
Cold Spring station. I think the link should be
Cold Spring station (Metro-North), as in |services=
just above.
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:32, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
In Urban rail transit in China, some template or other fails to recognise that Convention & Exhibition Center station is ambiguous - twice. This should be redlinked as Convention and Exhibition Center station (Dalian Metro). Narky Blert ( talk) 11:20, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Reports such as Templates with disambiguation links claim to be updating as normal but do not actually change. This may be due to wiki replica replication having stopped. Main discussion: WP:VPT#System problem? and phab:T310325. Certes ( talk) 01:11, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
On Propaganda in Russia, Propaganda in Belarus, Propaganda in Spain, Propaganda in the Polish People's Republic and possibly others, a template entitled "Propaganda in Europe" appears at the bottom of the page. This includes 3 dab links, however when I try to view or edit the template it takes me to Template:Europe topic which has template protection. The code says {{Europe topic|Propaganda in}} but I can't find this. Help appreciated.— Rod talk 17:27, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
|DE=Article name
wherever the template is used, or ideally in a new {{
Propaganda in Europe}} navbox to keep the article choices in one place. However, I don't think any article fits the bill. Similar considerations apply to Italy and the UK. Could
Propaganda in Germany/Italy/UK become a set index or similar fudge?
Certes (
talk)
19:51, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
{{
Europe topic}}
from those pages, and replace it with either a navbox of specific links to existing articles, or no navbox at all. (No navbox
is a valid option.)@ JaGa, @ R'n'B, and all other interested parties:
Dabsolver is currently down. Embarrassingly enough, as an Apple user, I'm somewhat dependent on it. I'm just leaving a note here so those able to either fix it or sound an alarm to those who can can do just that. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 06:48, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
The article Bids for the 1998 Winter Olympics uses the template {{ Infobox Olympic bid}}. The "winner" field in that template creates two links, one in the Overview section that links to the winning city's bid article (in this case Nagano bid for the 1998 Winter Olympics, which is a self-redirect), and one in the Decision section that links to the article for the winning city. The problem is that the city of Nagano is not the primary topic for the term—the correct article is Nagano (city)—so the link created by the template goes to the dab page Nagano. All the other recent host cities are the primary topics for their names, so I couldn't find any example of how to produce the correct link. Can anyone fix this, or is there a work-around? — ShelfSkewed Talk 19:18, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
An editor has requested for TBD to be moved to another page. Since you had some involvement with TBD, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 07:44, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
Could someone with a working copy of AWB (or similar) do null edits on the list of articles linking to Template:Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City? A couple of dab fixes were done to Template:Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City on 1 October but, for some reason, the articles which include the template are still showing at the list of Articles With Multiple Dablinks. I am unable to get AWB working at present.— Rod talk 08:29, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Can an expert in templates take a look at Template:Infobox road to get the link in the infobox for Indian roads to point to Puducherry (union territory) rather than Puducherry? I have tried both the "|state=" & "|territories=" parameters with both the full name and the abbreviation "PY" and can't get this to work. The Dablink list for Puducherry shows where it appears.— Rod talk 10:31, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi all, I just recently moved Show and tell to Show and tell (disambiguation) per this discussion close. And Show and tell (education) to Show and tell. But I think there are likely to be a lot of links to that DAB page that now go to the wrong place (the PTOPIC)... I fixed the redirect for " Show & Tell" because that is very obviously for the Filipino TV show. But I'm not sure how to handle the rest of the incoming links to that page. Would appreciate your help on this, let me know your thoughts...— Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 15:15, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
The Template:Districts of Turkey is used on several articles (listed here). It includes a link to the dab page Derecik - presumably in the "Districts" section which transposes another template from somewhere & I can't work out where. Help appreciated.— Rod talk 12:58, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
On this list dablinks are shown to Nuclear energy in Iran. They are generated by a navbox at the bottom of each article headed "Nuclear energy in Asia". When trying to edit this you are taken to Template:Asia topic and I can't see any way to change the entry for "Iran" to stop the dab link and perhaps point to Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant as Nuclear program of Iran seems to be about nuclear weapons rather than power generation.— Rod talk 10:45, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi all, I've sent a request to those responsible for the Europe templates to address the propaganda in Germany, Italy and United Kingdom dablinks. It's a protected template, so hopefully someone can make the corrections required :-) . ColRad85 ( talk) 07:57, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
At the bottom of Football in the United Kingdom (and presumably others) there is a template where the title is a red link to Football in the World. Viewing or trying to edit takes you to Template:World topic with no indication of how to get to the football specific one. It includes links to dab pages Football in Canada & Football in the United States. As the rest of the links are to Association football presumably these should link to Soccer in Canada & Soccer in the United States. Any ideas how to fix these?— Rod talk 16:41, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
|link_Canada=Soccer in Canada
to override the article titles. (Template:World topic would not need changes; it would pass these through seamlessly.)
Certes (
talk)
17:24, 3 December 2022 (UTC){{
World topic|Football in}}
doesn't seem to be used elsewhere. Like
Rodw, I just presumed this would be common to most countries, and I should have checked before bothering to fix it. Perhaps it'll get adopted now it actually works.
Certes (
talk)
10:42, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Could someone who is good with appropriate tools (possibly petscan or similar) put togtehr a list of all the articles listed at Disambiguation pages with links (currently 6800+) which contain the word "station" in their title? My impression is that there are more of these articles appearing on the Daily Disambig and that they are staying longer. I assume this may be because the links are hidden within "Infobox station", "Adjacent stations" etc making them more difficult to fix (and not show up in DisamAssist). I am aware that some links may be in articles about railway lines or transport systems and therefore may not be included but, once the list is created, we could post a message at Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains (and one or two key individuals who frequently use these templates) asking them to help resolve them.— Rod talk 14:37, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
{{
stn|Name|Disambiguator}}
, which should be {{
stn|Name||Disambiguator}}
, unlike {{
STN|Name|Disambiguator}}
which works because stn and STN require their parameters in a different order. Only an experienced station disambiguation specialist is likely to get anything vaguely complicated right first time.
Certes (
talk)
21:01, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
I would love it when the station-Cabal can agree on a standard way to disambiguate stations and make those templates easier to fix. The Banner talk 11:47, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Question: is there a daily report that members of WikiProject Trains can look at? I'm happy to help with these issues, and I can probably find and fix them pretty fast. Mackensen (talk) 14:30, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
I put together a rough and not especially optimized query at WP:QUARRY: [8]. This looks for articles whose talk pages include {{ WikiProject Trains}} that link to disambiguation pages. Mackensen (talk) 03:40, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
{{
stn|Foo}}
→ {{
stn|Foo||Bar}}
), let alone making intricate changes to Lua modules.
Certes (
talk)
12:34, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Last week I edited Template:IHL to change a link after a page move. I had moved Chicago Hounds to Chicago Hounds (ice hockey team) and edited the link in the template to point to the new location. Chicago Hounds is now a dab page, but the template links still seem to be pointing to it. Is there any quicker way of changing all the links, apart from doing a blank edit on the articles used in the template? Bcp67 ( talk) 11:08, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
Thanks Certes, it was the null edit I had in mind- wasn't sure of the correct term. I'll just go through the articles and do that. Thanks again. -- Bcp67 ( talk) 13:35, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
@ Tassedethe: http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/view/File_viewer#log:missing_entries-enwiki.log still works for me, and a look at directory http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/logs/ suggests that the data is being updated. Certes ( talk) 19:13, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
The articles in this list have links to Constitution of Chile which seem to arise from a template titled "Constitutions of states and dependencies in the Americas". When you try to view or edit the template it takes you to Template:Americas topic and I can't see how to fix this.— Rod talk 22:06, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
I've noticed User:DPL bot is adding the {{ Incoming links}} template, but not removing it when the links have been fixed. You can see the category Category:Disambiguation pages with many incoming links has pages tagged going back months. The few I've looked at don't appear to have any incoming links. I left a note with the bot owner User:JaGa but they appear to be inactive (1 edit on Jan 1, before that September). Not sure if anything can be done without the owner? Tassedethe ( talk) 16:47, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
Howdy disambiguators. I'm stumped on page Florida's 6th Senate district, within Template:Election box I'm trying to disambiguate Unaffiliated to Independent politician and for the life of me can't figure out how to do it. Curious to see how it's fixed. Peace- J04n( talk page) 17:35, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at the list of acronyms articles. Where an acronym is followed by several potential uses I have been linking to the dab page but where there is one acronym followed by one use it seems pointless to link both the acronym & the specific article:
Interested in the thoughts of others.— Rod talk 17:45, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
On Diocese of the Windward Islands there is a navbox headed "Diocese of the Americas" which includes 6 dab links. When you attempt to view or edit this it goes to Template:Americas topic and I can't see how to fix the links. Help appreciated.— Rod talk 14:18, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
{{
Americas topic|Diocese of}}
or {{
Americas topic|Football in}}
. There is just one navbox template, which isn't intended to be edited; it uses its parameters to construct a large number of links, which must be in certain predefined formats. So using |Diocese of
}} and nothing else produces links to
Antigua and Barbuda,
Argentina,
Bahamas,
Barbados etc. and if one of these pages is moved to another name and the resulting redirect is repurposed as a dab page, you will get the problems that you describe. The template depends upon a set of articles having a consistent naming pattern. See
Template:Americas topic#1st parameter (prefix). --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
22:07, 27 February 2023 (UTC)|link_Belize=the Anglican Diocese of Belize
. However, is "Diocese of" the best parameter value? Many of these countries have Catholic dioceses too. Maybe we want something like {{
Americas topic|Anglican diocese of}}
, creating redirects where the article is called simply Diocese of Foo (but carefully leaving the Catholic ones red).
Certes (
talk)
22:36, 27 February 2023 (UTC)We have a situation with the article Dallas. The IP editor 109.225.76.100 ( talk · contribs) has been at war for two years with the (disambiguation) redirects in that article's hatnote. Narky Blert attempted to persuade them to stop in October 2021, so conversation has been tried and failed. Nick Number restored the redirects on a later occasion, and I have warned them twice and restored the redirects at least three times. My last fix was reverted, and I'm not entirely certain the IP's edits constitute vandalism, so I don't want to get an edit-war suspension. Any thoughts on how to proceed? — ShelfSkewed Talk 19:54, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
It is every Wikipedia user's duty to know what they are linking tohad never filled me with enthusiasm. TY to Dekimasu for correcting this error again. IP's edits to Dallas are definitely not WP:VAND, though they do smack of WP:CIR; and it's certainly not a case of WP:THEYCANTHEARYOU, because they know about their TP. Their other edits - well, I've seen worse and some are perfectly good. To me, this looks too slow-moving for WP:PP or any sort of sanction. I suggest more eyes and reversions on Dallas if they persist, in the hope they learn. Sigh.
It is every Wikipedia user's duty to know what they are linking to- are we to assume that every link to a disambiguation page is intentional? Leschnei ( talk) 22:32, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
Is it just me (and my computer setup) or are some of the lists being shortened?
Does anyone know why this should be happening & anything that can be done to fix it?— Rod talk 12:14, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Can anyone work out what is going on at Y with loop? There are lots of 2 letter links to dab pages in the template "Lating Script" but these don't appear at Template:Latin script and I have no idea what they should be linking to or what they are meant to mean.— Rod talk 13:42, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
For any disambiguators looking for something to do while the replication lag prevents our reports from working, a move has caused Universal history to become a disambiguation page with a little under 200 incoming links. - Niceguyedc ( talk) 12:03, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Could those knowledgeable about links to dab pages in templates/navboxes take a look at the discussion at Template talk:Africa topic#Disambiguation link on Law enforcement in Africa? I asked for a link to Law enforcement in Western Sahara to be changed in a protected template, but this has not been possible. Any ideas/comments appreciated.— Rod talk 16:19, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
There is a possible issue with a disambiguation finder on toolforge. I have started a discussion here and am asking for assistance/input if possible. Thanks! Primefac ( talk) 09:32, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
Major has been moved to Major (rank) following a RM, and the dab to the base name. I just fixed the 200 affected templates, but there are still over 6,000 articles to fix. As usual, a few of them may refer to other uses of "major". Certes ( talk) 11:35, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
Major is now finished or at least down to negligible proportions. Thanks to all who helped. Today's awkward move is Al Jazeera; discussion here. Certes ( talk) 19:11, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
I think something, similar to my query above, may be going on with Formation in the Template:Infobox Indian state or territory. I can't see any other reason why these articles are producing the error.— Rod talk 16:34, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
|formation_date3=formation
which indicates a
bifurcation from another state. This idea is supported by the incoming links for
Formation1, used in |formation_date2=formation1
. I don't see exactly how it's getting linked though.
Certes (
talk)
18:15, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Can anyone work out what is causing links to Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy. There are 15 articles shown at Disambig fix list for Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy but I can't see where. They have Template:USSecNavy in common but this was last edited in June. Any ideas appreciated.— Rod talk 15:19, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
{{{office|}}}
rather than the names of the parameters filled in the data beneath the label, which appears to have activated these links. ‑‑
Neveselbert (
talk ·
contribs ·
email)
16:33, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
|office=
parameter is missing (or blank) we'll just check the existence of
Deputy.
Certes (
talk)
17:36, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
On several articles ( 1835 Liverpool Town Council election, 1836 Liverpool Town Council election, 1839 Liverpool Town Council election, 1840 Liverpool Town Council election, 1841 Liverpool Town Council election) there is a link to "Reformers" in Template:Election summary party which should go to Whigs (British political party) but I can't work out what is happening in the template. (NB it works in the infobox but not in the Election results per ward). Any help appreciated.— Rod talk 17:46, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
Great work in the last 24 hours to reduce the links to Sydney Football Stadium from 1,000+ to 24 however these seem to be generated by links to "Allianz Stadium" in Template:Rugby union stadium ("RUS") and I can't see any way to dab in this template.— Rod talk 10:40, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Does abyone know if a tweak has been made to bot operations over the last couple of days. When
Today's Dablink Report is published all articles are struckthrough as if they have been edited and on
Templates with disambiguation links articles are no longer struckthrough when they have been edited.—
Rod
talk
18:15, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Several articles (shown on this list) include a template titled "Romani people in Asia" but when you try to edit this it takes you to a protected Template:Asia topic. On the 2nd line of "Sovereign states" there is a link to Iran which should go to one or other (or both of the articles at Romani people in Iran. Any help sorting this one out wiuld be appreciated.— Rod talk 17:47, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
I was wondering who wrote/created/maintains the Toolforge DAB Challenge tool?-- Commander Keane ( talk) 20:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
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With more links appearing daily, clearly we need to keep up the good work to keep those numbers low, but I wonder if this is a good time to think about where to go from here. - Certes, 5 December 2018
That got me thinking. My first idea was given names and surnames (those now constitute my planned part 2). On further consideration, I felt that intentional links to DAB pages might be a simpler place to start.
The vast majority of links through (disambiguation) qualifiers are perfectly good. There is, however, a small number where an editor has clumsily evaded a DABbing problem by linking through a (disambiguation) qualifier. These are extremely difficult to spot, invariably annoying, and sometimes totally useless. (I have seen links like that where there was nothing relevant on the DAB page. Almost all could be redlinked or {{ ill}}-linked after searching.) This proposal is designed to address that problem. I do not think it conflicts or overlaps with, or would require modification of, anything else.
I propose the following scheme:
(1) User:IDL bot would look for and log links to pages in Category:Disambiguation pages and its subcategories. It would ignore links which can be presumed good, such as:
IDL bot would place its finds in a new maintenance (do not delete if empty!) category, Category:Articles with unassessed links to disambiguation pages. I suggest a daily run. I doubt whether it would be worthwhile generating a list of such links. I also doubt whether it would be worthwhile creating monthly subcategories. This looks like a largely one-off task, in which new problem links will be rare.
IDL bot will of course pick up good intentional links to DAB pages, e.g. in hatnotes which don't use templates, in main text, and as see-also links. That can't be helped. This is where template intdablink (and the heavy lifting) come in.
(2) The idea behind Template:Intdablink is to provide a standard wrapper for an intentional link to a DAB page, to show that an editor has reviewed it and considers it correct. It would be much more compact than e.g. my current technique of adding <!--intentional link to DAB page-->. I doubt whether the sort of editor who introduces the type of error under discussion would notice its existence, so the risk of misuse should be small.
Its syntax would be {{intdablink|page=|pipe=|date=}}.
Examples:
Intdablink would populate Category:Articles with assessed links to disambiguation pages. It isn't immediately obvious when that category might be useful; but it looks straightforward to populate; and if it ever is needed, it's there.
In an ideal word, adding Intdablink would also depopulate Category:Articles with unassessed links to disambiguation pages. That looks like overcomplication and much more trouble than it would be worth. It would be necessary to check for other links on each page before depopulation. It would be much simpler just to regenerate Category:Articles with unassessed links to disambiguation pages on each IDL bot run.
IPL bot would also update a very simple report each time it ran: date, #unassessed, #assessed, #total. That would show the progress and encourage editors.
I know nothing about writing bots or templates. I therefore propose leaving those tasks to the hordes of eager volunteers. It would probably be a good idea to do some preliminary testing before going live, to estimate the amount of work which this proposal would create. I would be very willing to help clear up the resulting dog's breakfast.
As I am sure that there must be things which I have got wrong or overlooked, or which could be done more simply, I now sign off as Narky Blert ( talk) 21:31, 9 December 2018 (UTC), and throw this idea open for
That looks like an interesting idea and a workable design. It's certainly worth an initial run to count the potential problems. Mainspace has 372,000 wikilinks to "Something (disambiguation)"; I can't easily tell how many of those have the attributes listed above which mean they're probably good. Certes ( talk) 22:47, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
Outdated list of popular targets
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|
{{
See also dab|FizBuz}}
would reduce the typing and add an air of authority, as well as marking exclusions which don't need to be checked.
Certes (
talk)
02:06, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
{{
See also dab|FizBuz}}
idea - it makes disambiguation in hatnotes and See also's simpler and more clear.
Leschnei (
talk)
14:26, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
{{
other uses dab|FizBuz}}
might be a better example, because {{
other uses}} without parameters generates a link to
Pagename (disambiguation). Similarly with {{
other people}}.
Narky Blert (
talk)
15:26, 10 December 2018 (UTC)I realize that it is a bit outside of the gnoming that this project usually delves into, but I have a fat stack of WP:DABCONCEPT drafts in various states of construction that will ultimately take the place of a variety of poorly thought-out disambiguation pages. Just in the past few months, we have completed Stranger, Rivalry, and Rethinking for this purpose, and I think these came out quite nicely. bd2412 T 20:10, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
When a disambiguation page is proposed as a merge target, the templates used to make that proposal (e.g. {{merge to|Foobar}}, {{merge from|Barfoo}} create a link which registers as a disambiguation link. See Bank of American Fork (building) for a live example. Can we do something to prevent our system from reporting those as links needing to be fixed? bd2412 T 05:24, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Goubangzi railway station and Xingcheng railway station link to the DAB page Jinzhou railway station instead of to Jinzhou railway station (Jinzhou). Template:S-rail-national seems to be another of those railway templates with code impenetrable to all but initiates and no means of disambiguation. The fact that the {{ dn}} tags, and the hidden notes on them, have been around since August 2017 says something. Narky Blert ( talk) 08:18, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
We have a few links to dab Ligurian language. These come from passing language code "lij" to Module:Lang via templates such as {{ Infobox Italian comune}}. It has been suggested that we resolve this by removing the disambiguation page and promoting the current language to primary topic. What does the team think? Certes ( talk) 14:34, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
lij
to variable override
in
Module:Lang/data might work. Perhaps a template editor can test this by pasting
Module:Sandbox/Certes over
Module:Lang/data and previewing
Camogli without saving. (My usual workaround of fiddling around with
Special:TemplateSandbox only seems to work for previewing changes to protected templates, not modules.)
Certes (
talk)
15:16, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
lij
on an infobox Talk Page several months ago, possibly as long as a year ago.
Narky Blert (
talk)
20:55, 9 December 2018 (UTC)override
:
override
: ["lij"] = {"Ligurian", link="Ligurian (Romance language)"},
name_from_code
to something like
this (untested)lij
would work correctly for the modern Ligurian.xlg
'Ligurian (Ancient)' in
Module:Language/data/iana languages with 'Ancient Ligurian' in
Module:Lang/data.link={}
table in Module:Lang/data that associates a language code with its matching en.wiki article. Then it's a simple test to create a wikilink from that:
if link then -- when |link=yes, wikilink the language name
if language_name:find ('languages') then
return make_wikilink (language_name); -- collective language name uses simple wikilink
elseif lang_data.linkcode then
return make_wikilink (lang_data.linkcode], language_name); -- language name with wikilink from override data
else
return make_wikilink (language_name .. ' language', language_name); -- language name with wikilink
end
end
if
and elseif
so a link table entry works even if the name contains "languages".
Certes (
talk)
21:12, 9 December 2018 (UTC)What should we do about Bajwa, and especially its link from {{ Ethnic and social groups of the Punjab}}? That template's other entries are mainly articles about castes etc., with a few surname pages, so I'm reluctant to add an INTDABLINK. Certes ( talk) 11:19, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
When I started getting interested in DABfixing, Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation contained the best part of 11,000 entries dating back to 2012. I helped get that number down to 4,500, then watched as it drifted out to 7,000.
There are now consistently fewer than 1,500 entries, and the oldest are from 2016. I have just given that year a good going-over; 85 entries in 8 months remain. Can those numbers be reduced still further? Narky Blert ( talk) 07:28, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
The "from the top 1000 disambiguation pages" phrasing at the top of the list might be outdated for the first time next month. The January list might contain all mainspace links to disambiguation pages. Amazing! Dekimasu よ! 22:28, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
This group is an oddity. None of the problem pages caught by Disambiguation pages with links contains anything which looks like a link to the relevant DAB page. Some of them look as if they might once have done, through a template; but I can't see anything obviously wrong in any such template, and WP:NULLEDITs on the articles and templates don't clear the bad links. I've been seeing all these problems for several weeks. There's no connection between the topics, so the problems may be independent of each other.
Thoughts, anyone? Narky Blert ( talk) 20:07, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
|linking_name=X
parameter would allow us to link to "Politics of X" instead, but it's not clear what we would set X to. It could also break several other links, as the infobox uses the same parameter for several purposes. There may be an argument for writing a BCA over
Politics of Korea.
Certes (
talk)
20:53, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
|linking_name=Korea in exile
, then create redirects from "Politics of Korea in exile", "Flag of Korea in exile", etc. to the desired targets, leaving the title without a page if we don't want a link.
Certes (
talk)
12:00, 26 December 2018 (UTC)|politics_link=
parameter which we can change, but only to an actual link. (If the target doesn't exist, the text will be red rather than black.) I'll set this to something harmless like
Government, unless someone can think of a better destination.
Certes (
talk)
18:15, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
|politics_link=
? I.e., <nowiki>BlackLinkName</nowiki>. It works in some but not all templates which autogenerate links.
Narky Blert (
talk)
17:50, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
We have an new template linking to rail station dabs: {{
Station link}}, which usually appears as its redirect stl. The solution is to read the code after stl, prefix it by Module:Adjacent stations/, and edit the Lua code. For example,
Line 21 (Guangzhou Metro) was linking to dab
Changping station. The cause is {{
GZM stations|Changping}}
, which is a wrapper around {{
stl|GZM|Changping}}
. Looking up the code GZM gives us
Module:Adjacent stations/GZM. In this case, that is a require statement, which is Lua's version of a soft redirect, telling us that
this edit fixes the problem. Happy coding,
Certes (
talk)
13:27, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
In 2018 PSAC Football Championship Game, Template:Infobox NCAA football yearly game is calling the DAB page West Chester. The problem seems to be that 2018 West Chester Golden Rams football team doesn't exist; because Slippery Rock pipes nicely as 2018 Slippery Rock football team. Narky Blert ( talk) 18:10, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Many articles such as
Egyptian Armed Forces use {{
Africa topic|Military of}}
. This creates a link to dab
Military of Libya. This is a similar case to
Communism in India reported
above (which remains unresolved), but with less justification for a BCA. Any suggestions please?
Certes (
talk)
23:06, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
I fell across Template:Pagelist earlier today. It seems to have no way of handling ambiguous links, either by [[]] or by {{!}}. Nor does it seem to have a means of suppressing links.
The article in question was nanoparticle; search for printer. I compromised by changing the unqualified to a fully-qualified link; although in that pagelist item, I would have preferred to delink both paper and printer as irrelevant, and to use a more relevant link for ink such as ink#Carbon or toner. Narky Blert ( talk) 23:36, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
The 'runner-up' field in the infobox in Bids for the 2006 Winter Olympics links to DAB page Sion rather than to Sion, Switzerland in some obscure manner or other. Narky Blert ( talk) 14:07, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
At least one field, and I imagine a lot more, in
Template:International football competition statistics autogenerates a link which may be incorrect with no obvious fix: see |least time difference 2 goals-team=
in
2002 FIFA World Cup statistics.
Narky Blert (
talk)
17:44, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Template:Year in Japan inserts the year as a raw number - which is fine for recent years, but is NBG for low numbers which are DAB pages, and may not work at all for BCE. See the field 'Other events of 70' in the infobox of 70 in Japan. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:33, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
I've made the first draft of an essay in a sandbox. Suggestions for content improvement and a better title are welcome. Certes ( talk) 14:28, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Template:Adjacent stations contains |leftn=
and |rightn=
fields with no obvious way to disambiguate them. See
Pointe-aux-Trembles station (Via Rail); the two links should be to
Ahuntsic station (Via Rail).
Narky Blert (
talk)
18:01, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Beware that North Macedonia has moved, creating some new links to dabs. Work still seems to be in progress: the page has had over 100 edits today. Related pages are also on the move ( Macedonian culture moved twice while I was investigating one problem) and links are being updated, including those generated by complex templates such as {{ European topic}}. It may take a few days for things to settle down. Certes ( talk) 23:22, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
The following is a list of the dab pages with one more incoming link from this month's DAB challenge that also appear in today's list of dab pages with missing entries. Of course, the missing entries report doesn't catch all missing entries, and there might be the occasional false positive as well.
Anyone interested in helping to add those missing entries? If you do any from the list, it will be helpful to mark it with {{ done}}.
Thanks in advance! – Uanfala (talk) 21:42, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
In case anyone was wondering, there is a massive ongoing outage of the Toolforge database. That means no updates to the DAB Challenge or any of the other dplbot pages, and no Daily Disambig, until it gets fixed, which probably won't be until Tuesday at the earliest, and maybe later. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 19:04, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
I notice an increasing number of alleged navboxes which navigate between a few articles and a sea of redlinks. These come to my attention because one of the many topics lacking an article happens to share its name with a dab page. On closer inspection, most of the blue links lead to unrelated topics. Example edit, because our article Wagon is not about an obscure village. Are there any criteria for creating a NAVBOX? Is it grounds for discussion if, say, less than 10% of the links lead to relevant articles? Certes ( talk) 11:33, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Can anyone see how 1989 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy and 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup are calling the redirect Germany national field hockey team, which points to DAB page Germany national hockey team? because I'm fuddled if I can. Mousing over every link in those articles one by one suggests that everything links correctly to Germany men's national field hockey team. WP:NULLEDITs have made no difference, and those bad links have been around for a week. I suspect that something nasty may be happening inside {{ fh}} or {{ fh-rt}} or both. Narky Blert ( talk) 08:26, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
Democratic Action Party was briefly a dab with many incoming links. It currently redirects to the Malaysian party but may change again, depending on the result of Talk:Democratic Action Party (disambiguation)#Requested move 17 February 2019. I've sat boldly on the fence, but other editors may have more helpful insights. Certes ( talk) 02:26, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
The list below includes all dab pages with missing entries (from this report) that have incoming links (according to this months' DAB Challenge list). The fundamental idea is to make sure a dab page is complete before fixing incoming links as some of these links could be intended for the missing entries. There's a massive caveat though: only some types of missing entries are tracked: for example, the report doesn't look for comma-separated or natural disambiguators, or for topics that are covered within other articles, or for articles that don't yet exist. So even after the missing entries identified here have been added, it continues to be possible that the intended target of a given incoming link can be something that's not on the dab page. Also, there might be occasional false positives in the list.
If you fix a dab page, it will be a good idea to add {{ done}} after its entry. Thanks in advance! – Uanfala (talk) 18:51, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Adoration of the Shepherds (Lucas Cranach the Elder) includes {{ Infobox artwork/wikidata}}, and is creating an unlinked call to the DAB page lime. d:Q46473788 includes a subcall for lime to d:Q575018 which makes clear what I had already guessed: 'lime' means lindenwood from Tilia. (There are articles on the wood in frwiki and ruwiki, but not in enwiki.) A bluelink in the article (labelled 'lime' rather than 'Tilia') would be useful. As usual with Wikidata, I got stuck at this point... Narky Blert ( talk) 15:05, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
What do we think of King of Nepal? Perhaps it should be a BCA or at least a SIA of the successive royal houses, including Licchavi (kingdom)#Rulers and History of Limbuwan. Certes ( talk) 11:02, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Several pages have moved, including a dab. I would welcome replies at Talk:Emmanuel#Titles, redirects and links. Certes ( talk) 11:39, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
In 2018 Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan), Template:Cycling race/stageclassification calls d:Q56754726. Wikidata in turn checks for the DAB page Aleksandr Smirnov, and generates one of those pairs of blacklink-in-article plus spurious what-links-here on the DAB page. Aleksandr Smirnov (cyclist) doesn't appear to exist in any WP (perhaps unsurprisingly, if his best result is 6th in one stage of an obscure stage race).
It also creates another (relatively harmless) pair for Nikita Sokolov, who's a footballer; I haven't checked the Q-numbers, but there could be 6 of those.
I could go off those templates which call Wikidata. Narky Blert ( talk) 14:05, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Toolforge is having another one of its spasms. I'm AFK for the next few days so there won't be muchI can do. Not entiely sure what will or won't work for now. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 14:24, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
Can we start tagging drafts with large numbers of disambiguation links, so they do not get moved to mainspace until those issues are resolved? bd2412 T 00:20, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Ferrous#Make it into a disamb page? before fixing links to dab Ferrous. Thanks, Certes ( talk) 11:33, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
The discussion (which has probably run its course) at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Excessive and irrelevant linking, even down to syllables of words may be of interest to other DABfixers. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:39, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Most new DAB page links are because the editor doesn't know the thing is a DAB link. There is a behavior buried in Preferences that displays DAB links in orange:
Preferences>Gadgets>Appearance>"Display links to disambiguation pages in orange
I think that should become the default Wiki behavior. New DAB links would drop hugely. Cptmrmcmillan ( talk) 16:16, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
Biodiversity of Europe, in Biodiversity of Albania and Biodiversity of Kosovo, linking to Biodiversity of the United Kingdom. As is usual with these 'Continent topic' pages, impenetrable code and no obvious way of fixing the error. Narky Blert ( talk) 06:22, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
{{ ifcs}} is yet another template which autocompletes at least one field, possibly wrongly, with no obvious way to override.
The example I found was |fastest yellow sub opponent1=
in
2002 FIFA World Cup#Disciplinary statistics, linking to the DAB page
United States national football team rather than to
United States men's national soccer team. I suspect the problem extends to all the team/opponent fields in the template.
Narky Blert (
talk)
14:40, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
{{
Nft|{{{fastest yellow opponent1}}}}}
was replaced by a link to "{{{fastest yellow opponent1}}} national football team", using the default title format because Nft doesn't know of an exception for a country called Fastest Yellow Opponent 1. This may or may not turn out to be the right page, depending what country gets passed to the template later. I've added more code to dissuade the bot from substituting the template before the country is identified.
Certes (
talk)
15:08, 19 May 2019 (UTC)In Boulder Railroad Depot, Template:s-line amusingly links to the redirect Denver station which points to the DAB page Denver railway station while leaving no trace of how it's doing so. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:34, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Several dabs such as M3 motorway have incoming links. I hope that these will soon disappear. Details: Template talk:Ukmotorwaysmall. Certes ( talk) 17:50, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
A few pages are sticking on the Disambiguation pages with links report.
Anna K. Demic studied at the [Free] University of Brussels, with no further clues in text or references
Willie Wynne (UPP): 12,345 votes, with no further clues in text or references
Please can anyone help? Certes ( talk) 15:35, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Perth Australia Temple calls the redirect Kenneth Johnson to the DAB page Ken Johnson - click Expand next to Additional information in the infobox to view. I have no idea where it's getting the link from, and there doesn't seem to be anyone relevant on the DAB page. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:28, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
If anyone can find out how List of Moscow Metro stations is linking to the DAB page Kosino instead of to Kosino (Moscow Metro), you've done better than I managed. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:54, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
They've been mentioned before, but is this project interested in SIAs with links? I took The Telegraph as a random example: 126 pages linked there, of which 117 needed editing (mainly to The Daily Telegraph), including one I couldn't fix ({{dn}} is dubious and messes up the formatting). Nine are legitimate links to the list; I didn't mark them since The Telegraph (disambiguation) is also dubious. The first SIAs on the list are Captain and Diagnosis. Each has about 600 incoming links which, at a quick glance, seem as accurate as The Telegraph's, and with 3,000 SIAs this is the tip of the iceberg. It's not urgent but might keep us busy while the reports are broken. Any thoughts? Certes ( talk) 19:19, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
SIAs worry me; but a discussion such as this should perhaps be conducted at WP:SIA rather than here.
I'm not even going to refer to the guidelines. As I see it, SIAs fill an uneasy gap between (1) lists which fail the notability requirements of WP:LISTN, and (2) DAB pages, which per MOS:DAB should contain neither orphan redlinks nor citations. (I enthusiastically delete orphan redlinks from DAB pages when it's clear that there's nothing there (in particular, vanity posts). However, if there's a prima facie assertion of notability, such as being an inhabited place, I don't even look into them, whatever WP:DABMENTION might say. If I go into a non-English WP to solve a DABlink problem, I often add a {{ ill}} link in the English DAB page, because – IMAO – WP:IAR and WP:5P5 override MOS:DAB. An {{ ill}} link on a DAB page points readers towards useful information. And, you never know, but someone might write the English article (I've done it myself).)
However, SIAs are too often grab-bag pages containing items which have nothing in common but similarity of name. For me, that's DAB territory. Just about every SIA I've looked at while tracking down a DABlink has contained at least one bad incoming link. That is not good for the encyclopedia. Narky Blert ( talk) 22:00, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Dreamy Jazz has boldly tagged The Telegraph as a dab and no one has complained yet. I've fixed the 73 bad incoming links which appeared in the two months since my previous pass. If the edit sticks then perhaps we can do the same to the other SIAs. On a related note, I'm working with editors active at Trove to get their Australian newspaper archives linked to the correct enwiki articles, e.g. linking this entry to Telegraph (Brisbane), which should make it easier to get certain assisted edits right. Certes ( talk) 11:03, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Last year, dab tags were replaced by newspaper SIA tags on several pages, leaving them in dab format. Yesterday, I restored a few of the dab tags and duly fixed the incoming links. However, my edits have now been reverted, which I suppose makes future bad links someone else's problem. Ah well, it was worth a try. Certes ( talk) 08:48, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
Another of those templates whose workings I have no temptation to try to understand. It's often difficult enough to locate where in the text the bad link is being generated. In European route E15, {{Jct|country=GBR|M|8}} links to the DAB page M8 motorway instead of to M8 motorway (Scotland). Similarly, {{Jct|country=GBR|M|9}} links to M9 motorway instead of to M9 motorway (Scotland). Narky Blert ( talk) 10:31, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
|dab1=Scotland
to {{
Jct}}. For reasons I don't understand, simple calls to several specialised templates are currently being systematically replaced by complex calls to Jct, and unfortunately some of those changes don't work.
Certes (
talk)
10:44, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Broad-concept articles aren't dab pages, and so links to them are perfectly acceptable. However, there are dab pages that should be converted to broad-concept articles, and links to them probably don't need fixing. Some of these dab pages are explicitly marked as needing conversion (via a template that places them in Category:Disambiguation pages to be converted to broad concept articles), so I'm wondering if they shouldn't be excluded from the monthly reports. – Uanfala (talk) 14:52, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
990s transcludes the DAB page 999 rather than AD 999. (This is a consequence of a recent WP:RM.) Expert help needed, as usual. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:02, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
This is an both an article and a disambiguation page. Any suggestions what to do to resolve this besides using this very tedious (to type) link track record
Thanks. Stretchrunner ( talk) 16:31, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
"An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Stagehand (horse), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Track record (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 08:10, 9 August 2019 (UTC)"
The instructions in Template:Linked species list don't work for redlinks. In Dryopteridoideae, I can pipe Phanerophlebia successfully as Phanerophlebia{{!}}Phanerophlebia (well, duh!), but I can get neither of the described DABbing methods to link to the redlink Phanerophlebia (plant). Narky Blert ( talk) 13:22, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
I need your advice on Talk:Sinai, as I am in a discussion with a colleague about the primary topic of Sinai. The colleague seems determined to change it to a link to a disambiguation page, breaking hundreds of links in the process. The Banner talk 08:36, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
400s (decade) transcludes the DAB page 404 instead of AD 404, and 990s transcludes 999 rather than AD 999. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:39, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
In the infobox of
Field hockey in India, |sport=
field hockey expands to [[India national field hockey team|India]]; which is a redirect to a DAB page. There seems no easy way either to insert 'men's' or 'women's' between 'India' and 'national' into this compound string, or to distinguish the visible part of the link as anything other than 'India'.
Narky Blert (
talk)
16:45, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
In
Laurentides—Labelle,
Template:Infobox Canada electoral district has the fields |fed-rep=
and |fed-rep-link=
, completed as
David Graham (a DAB page) and
David de Burgh Graham (the correct link) respectively. fed-rep-link isn't working, and the article is linking to the DAB page.
Narky Blert (
talk)
14:50, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
|fed-rep-link=
parameter, but it doesn't.
Certes (
talk)
15:31, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
|fed-rep-link=
(literally; no link text given) so it looks as if someone expected the parameter to become supported and it might be a good idea to add it.
Certes (
talk)
10:44, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
(UTC)
I see that the project page has been removed from Category:Active WikiProjects. It's certainly active (I contributed this morning) and seems to qualify as a WikiProject. It's not called WP:WikiProject Something, but then other stuff exists, which I think is a legitimate argument for organisation even if deprecated for content. Perhaps it's merely a subproject within WP:WikiProject Disambiguation. What does the team think? Certes ( talk) 13:49, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
Anyone know why the DAB Challenge leaderboard hasn't been updated in 13 days, or how to fix it? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 18:51, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Template:Linked species list doesn't accept either bluelinked ([[|]]) or pseudo-piped ({{!}}) overrides. See Dryopteridoideae, and the ambiguous link to Phanerophlebia (which should be to the redlink Phanerophlebia (plant)). Narky Blert ( talk) 12:02, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
By some devious means or other, Template:Infobox political party in People's Party of Georgia (country) is calling the DAB page Politics of Georgia rather than the more specific and arguably more helpful Politics of Georgia (country). Narky Blert ( talk) 05:08, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
|country_dab1=Politics of Georgia (country)
.
Certes (
talk)
11:09, 25 September 2019 (UTC)I have a second collection of {{ dn}} links which seem to me near-insoluble and may be "who cares?" My inclination would be to unlink the lot, but am posting here in case anyone can see merit in rescuing any of them as redlinks. This is basically a mass call for second opinions.
Yrs, Narky Blert ( talk) 22:01, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
In Berlin Charlottenburg – Wilmersdorf, Template:MMP election box candidate links to the DAB page Other; with no obvious means of stopping it, except by <nowiki></nowiki> or {{ dn}} tags, which break the formatting. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:01, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
Here we go again. The |fed-rep-party=
field in
Template:Infobox Malaysia electoral district converts UPP into a link to the DAB page (with qualified title, yuck)
United People's Party (Malaysia). In
Sri Aman (federal constituency) and
Bawang Assan, the link should be to
Sarawak United Party (PSB). It may be the same in
Engkilili (state constituency) and
Opar (state constituency); but because the MLA is redlinked, I can't be sure. Amusingly, bluelinking or pseudo-piping UPP, or changing it to PSB, renders as 'DCDCDC'.
Narky Blert (
talk)
12:12, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
In 1247, 1248 and 1249, a template (probably Template:Year dab or Template:Year nav) links to the DAB page Hōji rather than to Hōji (era). Narky Blert ( talk) 15:28, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
Aaand another one! In
Mary Geaney and
Rena Buckley, |icallireland=
in
Template:Infobox GAA player expands as [[All-Ireland Senior Championship|All-Irelands]]; and
All-Ireland Senior Championship is, inevitably, a DAB page. Matters are made no easier by the fact that they both won both the
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship and the
All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship. Compare
Template talk:Infobox Gaelic Athletic Association player#A link to a DAB page, where a fix was found for players active in only one code.
Narky Blert (
talk)
09:59, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
|icallirelandf=
and request a new |icallirelandc=
parameter. If not then we might just omit the camogie titles as we would for a less significant sport. For "dual" players (the template recognises only football and hurling), a table is produced. No one has won all-Ireland championships in both sports. though several such as
Tomás Brady have other types of honour in both columns.
Certes (
talk)
09:48, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
I put a link to a disambiguation page in a hatnote at the top of an article. I got a message from User:DPL bot. I guess my question is whether, if the disambiguation page is primary, I am still supposed to put (disambiguation) in the hatnote just so that both the bot and human editors will know that I am doing that on purpose. Robert McClenon ( talk) 16:38, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
Template:S-rail-national is yet another railway station template which assumes that station names are unique and which has no obvious way of disambiguation. In this case, Halifax railway station in Elland railway station. Narky Blert ( talk) 16:30, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
|county1=West Yorkshire
.
Certes (
talk)
16:45, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
|county1=
do a similar job for Great Britain as {{
S-line}} with |state1=
do elsewhere, if you pretend that Nova Scotia is a state.
Certes (
talk)
22:52, 30 October 2019 (UTC)In Alderson station, {{Adjacent stations|system=Chesapeake and Ohio|line=Main Line|left=Hinton|right=Ronceverte}} links to the DAB page Hinton station. Hinton station (West Virginia) says that it's that one. I seriously cannot find the energy to try to understand the mechanics of 'labour-saving' templates of this sort. It's enough bother to find out what's causing the error. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:04, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm looking ahead beyond some current work to restructure the top pages in the climate change subject area. When the dust has settled I expect "climate change" will be a redirect page pointing at global warming or "global warming" will redirect to climate change, or both with redirect to some other title, perhaps global warming and climate change. Whatever.... I'm thinking people will link to the redirect pages, and it would be nice to have something like User DPL bot to send them a notice.
Does that exist? If not, would it be helpful? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 01:54, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
reset I'm not sure I expressed myself well, so please allow me to try again. The idea is KEEP the redirect pages and KEEP existing links to them. GOING FORWARD.... when an editor adds new content, .... would it be worth gently encouraging users to consider adding their new content with links directly to target articles, instead of adding links to redirects? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 10:44, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
I would assumepart..., that's kind of ironic. Just a couple days ago I was talking with someone about editors who link ambiguous titles without checking them, and end up linking something they never intended. I agree with your edit summary that redirects are NOTBROKEN but making decisions based on faulty assumptions of human nature might be. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 17:10, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
A template used in S̩, seemingly some sort of misbegotten child of Template:Latin alphabet/main, links to (count 'em) 116 DAB pages and 8 probably-wrong pages. I have no idea how it is doing that, but suspect from the pattern that some code is creating every possible two-character combination which includes 's' or 'S' and merrily linking to whatever it finds.
My suggestion would be to either kill it with fire or nuke it from space before it does further damage, but don't know which button to press or lever to pull. Other suggestions, or indeed actual button-pressing or lever-pulling, would be welcome. Narky Blert ( talk) 23:15, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
When the parameter is a straight letter A-Z, the block with letter pairs is shown, which we don't want because it's a dabfest. Certes ( talk) 23:49, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
Template:Taxonomy/Stromatella calls the DAB page Stromatella rather than Stromatella (alga). This is another template where trying a piped or a pseudopiped link generates display errors. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:44, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
I received a message from it after editing List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations, however this article intentionally links to disambiguation pages as it concerns the words themselves. If they are not already could such articles be whitelisted to prevent these DPL from being removed by mistake? Snizzbut ( talk) 18:09, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
The infobox in François Barbé-Marbois is fetching a link to the DAB page statesman from Wikidata. The link is presumably buried somewhere in wikidata:Q708732. He's already listed as a politician, so this entry seems redundant (it's a weasel word - the leader of my party is a statesman, the leader of yours is a politician). Narky Blert ( talk) 08:51, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
It's one of those days. In
2017 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament,
2018 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and
2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, |MOP=
in
Template:Infobox NCAA Ice Hockey Conference Tournament expands to
Most Outstanding Player; which, to nobody's surprise, is a DAB page.
In these three cases, the answer is WCHA Most Outstanding Player in Tournament. In others, it might be List of NCAA Division I Ice Hockey Tournament Most Outstanding Player. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:17, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
|MOPlink=
, which should be an easy change.
Certes (
talk)
17:54, 26 November 2019 (UTC)In Divorce demography, Template:DDSC produces a "(more info)" link to the DAB page Divorce in the United Kingdom, with no obvious way of stopping it. I assume that the figures are for the whole UK, but am not sure. If they are, then a link through the (disambiguation) qualifier would work; except that it seems that no-one gets divorced in Northern Ireland. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:10, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
In Jens Juel (diplomat), the caption in the infobox is creating a circular link to the DAB page Jens Juel. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:41, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
If Template:Subin does provide a way of disambiguating a link (the documentation is bordering unintelligible), the one attempted in Lisa Dahlkvist for Jessica Samuelsson doesn't work. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:55, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
The Wikidata import in the infobox in Julia Bax links to the DAB page Kaos. This link suffers from the trifling disadvantage that there is no relevant article in either English or Portuguese WP. Narky Blert ( talk) 11:29, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Bids for the 2019 Pan American Games links to DAB page La Punta - according to User:DPL bot and what-links-here, but I can't see how. I bookmarked the page 6 (or possibly 12) weeks ago hoping that the problem would go away, but it hasn't.
My guess is that |candidate2=
in
Template:Infobox Pan American Games bid may be checking for an article, but ignoring the bit after the comma while creating a blacklink.
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:40, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
{{#ifexist:{{{candidate2}}}...
, but it doesn't manipulate the string to remove the suffix.)
Certes (
talk)
11:34, 20 December 2019 (UTC)The infobox in Munich East station calls the DAB page Taufkirchen in a very obscure manner, possibly by way of Template:s-line; very obscure, because Taufkirchen is only mentioned once in main text; where it links to Taufkirchen, Hugo-Junkers-Straße (MVV). There is also a hidden link to Taufkirchen, Lilienthalstraße (MVV). Narky Blert ( talk) 15:45, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
What is currently wrong with the Enigma dab? It still hows one link. I fixed every reference in the article namespace I could find. The only ones left are redirects, and those seem legitimate. What's currently causing this to be flagged? Coastside ( talk) 19:46, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
List of Nova Scotia provincial highways twice calls the DAB page Nova Scotia Trunk 32. (Search for the {{ dn}} tags to find the links.) The links are assembled from data items passed to {{ jct}}. While that has a wide variety of bells and whistles, none of them seems to enable overriding of the autogenerated link.
The first link (in the table) should be to Northwest Arm Drive. The second link (in the list) should be to Nova Scotia Route 332#History. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:21, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
The broad-concept article Potential has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Potential. I note this here because the intent of the nominator appears to be to point all of the incoming links to that page to the disambiguation page currently at Potential (disambiguation). BD2412 T 19:53, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
Changping railway station (Beijing) links to the DAB page Zhangjiakou railway station. I think it's a reasonable bet that it's not meant to be the station which closed in 2014. Amusingly, the link is generated somewhere other than in the article. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:47, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Hundreds of incoming links. Is there a best solution generally applicable to links to this title? BD2412 T 00:51, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
It's been a while since I came across one of these one-size-fits-all uncustomisable templates. In Outline of North America, Template:North America topic, customised as 'Ecoregions of North America', calls the redirect List of ecoregions in the United States, which points to the DAB page Lists of ecoregions in the United States. Narky Blert ( talk) 16:52, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
Has this or something like it come up before? In Bids for the 1976 Winter Olympics, the runner-up field in the infobox, buried in a template, links to DAB page Sion instead of to Sion, Switzerland. Narky Blert ( talk) 11:45, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
On Morocco national basketball team there are several links to Association Salé in the Past roster section. The template uses 'dab =' to disambiguate the player's name but I don't see a way to disambiguate the club. Is there a trick? Leschnei ( talk) 14:45, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
|club=AS Salé (basketball){{!}}AS Salé
should work but I've used |clublink=
since it exists.
Certes (
talk)
16:16, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
In List of armies by country, {{army|Uganda}} generates a link to the DAB page Uganda Army, with no obvious way of overriding that to link to Uganda People's Defence Force. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:28, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
2018–19 Borussia Mönchengladbach season and 2018–19 Hannover 96 season both call the ambiguous redirect Michael Lang (footballer). After a bit of a struggle (I had to click on every 'show' in the articles), I've tracked him down to {{Bundesliga matches|2018–19|MÖN}} and {{Bundesliga matches|2018–19|HAN}} respectively. In both cases, it should be Michael Lang (footballer, born 1991). Narky Blert ( talk) 11:47, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Template:Infobox GAA player remains the same problem; see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links/Archive 15#Template:Infobox GAA player, opened 12 October 2019. Narky Blert ( talk) 11:06, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Proposed new CSD criterion: R5, for redirects with malformed or misspelled (disambiguation) qualifiers which may be of interest to editors who follow this page. Narky Blert ( talk) 19:47, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
As of April, I will be making a long-overdue change to the DAB Challenge. The "Bonus List" will be eliminated, and the "Monthly List" will be expanded from 1,000 items to contain all disambiguation pages with incoming links as of the start of the month. The practical impact of this is minimal, since the two lists have overlapped for a while now, and all disambiguation pages with links were on one list or the other. There will only be one leaderboard going forward, the webpages dedicated to the Bonus List will stop working at some point on April 2 (there may be some error messages until I have a chance to swap out some files on the server), and the Monthly List pages will have more entries, but otherwise there should be relatively little change to how the monthly challenge operates. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 19:05, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
I'd like to renew my previous suggestion to please consider expanding the contest to other namespaces (e.g. Book, Category, File, Portal). Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 03:39, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
The disambiguation page Total has four incoming links from Template:Election box winning candidate with party link no change (e.g. 1940 United States Senate election in New York). What template would be a good replacement so there is no link to Total? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 18:08, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Template:Canadian cabinet member navigational box header has a couple of cute features. (1) The |ministry=
field requires underscores, or it doesn't render. It appends (Canadian politician) to the name. (2) There is no way of disambiguating. See
Charles Stewart in
Wilfrid Gariépy; the link should be
Charles Stewart (premier), because there have been three notable people called
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician).
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Editors considering improving {{ Navbox x-word}} may be interested in this tea party. Certes ( talk) 21:26, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
In the infobox of Irish Republican Brotherhood, there is a link to DAB page Elections in Ireland, possibly obscurely generated by Template:Infobox political party. It isn't clear whether this refers to Elections in the United Kingdom or Elections in the Republic of Ireland or both; Elections in Northern Ireland can perhaps be ruled out. Narky Blert ( talk) 08:53, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
What should we do about Fauna of Slovakia and Fauna of Slovenia? Their entries are subsets of the title so they shouldn't really be dabs, in the same way that United States isn't a dab listing Alabama, Alaska, etc. They have legitimate incoming links, including some through {{ Fauna of Europe}}. Certes ( talk) 11:05, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
In
UAAP Season 71 men's basketball tournament,
Template:UAAPathlete calls the DAB page
Joshua Webb rather than the redlink
Joshua Webb (basketball). All the usual tricks (|dab=
, |d=
, pseudo-pipe) generate a LUA error.
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:10, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
|link=
, with the added feature that the name appears in black (rather than the usual red) until the article is created.
Certes (
talk)
10:21, 27 April 2020 (UTC)Could someone please check the DAB Challenge page? It still states we're in April. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 14:35, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
In
Communist Party of Georgia (Soviet Union), the infobox links to DAB page
Politics of Georgia. It isn't clear to me how it's generating the link, but my guess would be from the unlinked field |country=
Georgia.
Narky Blert (
talk)
08:15, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
|country_dab1=Politics of Georgia (country)
.
Certes (
talk)
12:43, 19 May 2020 (UTC)In UAAP Season 78, Template:UAAPathlete calls DAB page Rafael Barreto, with no obvious way of either unlinking or of redlinking as Rafael Barreto (swimmer); a pseudopipe breaks the code. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:36, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
|link=
argument, discovered by examining
Module:PHL sports team.
Certes (
talk)
14:12, 20 May 2020 (UTC)Following the addition of new templates, German politicians are currently dominating the disambiguation reports. We've been discussing the matter at User talk:Olaf Kosinsky. Certes ( talk) 22:51, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
On top of my talk page there is {{nobots|allow=SineBot}}
; yet the bot posted a message on my talk page despite this. Can anybody investigate why the bot is not complying with a template it's supposed to be compliant to? Thanks,
RandomCanadian (
talk /
contribs)
13:53, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
{{
bots|allow=SineBot}}
, it should work as expected. --
R'n'B (
call me Russ)
13:04, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
{{
nobots|allow=SineBot}}
is supposed to have the same effect as {{
bots|allow=SineBot}}
. Thanks,
RandomCanadian (
talk /
contribs)
16:06, 29 May 2020 (UTC)There's a recently created dab page at Jammu and Kashmir, with a few thousand incoming links. I'm not sure for how long this is going to stand as a disambiguation page (the question has been contentious), and it may well get turned into a redirect again, so starting to fix incoming links might not be a wise thing to do. All the more so as the articles listed there are themselves ambiguously named: Jammu and Kashmir (state) (the likely target of most links) will probably need to be moved at some point, as the other two articles listed on the dab page are also states: one of them a historic state, the other one a potential future state. – Uanfala (talk) 22:08, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Well, the Toolforge database servers seem to be having conniptions again, so I’m going to extend the May contest for at least one more day to see if they settle down. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 23:30, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
Dispenser's excellent tools can no longer be reached via info.tm but are still usable via their IP address. Certes ( talk) 11:47, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Can anyone see why the {{ dn}} tags in Raja Khishtasub Khan and Singh Khalsa are not showing as bluelinks, and also (presumably as a consequence) are not listed in Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation from March 2020?
If anyone can solve the puzzle, I suggest redating the tags to the current month. Narky Blert ( talk) 16:50, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
In Flags of country subdivisions, Template:Flagg links to the DAB page Kalinga instead of to Kalinga (province). Eiether a bluelink or a pseudopipe breaks the formatting. The Isabela entry, immediately above, is a parallel case, and works. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:13, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
|link=
. Alternatively, we could have created {{
Country data Kalinga}} modelled on {{
Country data Isabela}}, but that might be unwise if Kalinga isn't the primary term for its topic.
Certes (
talk)
14:06, 21 June 2020 (UTC)In 2019 Hart District Council election, Template:Election summary partial council net party insists that DAB page Others must be linked, and won't take <nowiki> for an answer (it breaks the formatting). Narky Blert ( talk) 16:32, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 6#Coby (Disambiguation) to which members of this WikiProject may wish to contribute. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:08, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Template:World topic is importing a link to DAB page Palestine from somewhere. See World. It should presumably be State of Palestine. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:21, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
{{ Infobox artwork}} will soon stop linking the artist's name automatically, which is good news when they are not the primary topic for the name. A bot will add [[brackets]] instead, so the change won't remove any links to dab or mislinks immediately, but it will make them easier to fix. More details here. Certes ( talk) 17:32, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
At The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa#Temples, a sub-template of {{ LDS Temple list}} is calling the DAB page Umhlanga instead of Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal. The same error is also present in List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by geographic region and List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Narky Blert ( talk) 07:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Zico has been moved to a partial disambiguation: Zico (footballer). Zico is now a dab with 1,148 incoming links. Should we fix these, revert the bold move or find another solution? Certes ( talk) 10:20, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Template:Decades and years calls the DAB page 2084 rather than 2084 CE. See 21st century for an example. It is unusual for the WP:PTOPIC for a number this large not to be the CE year; but it is 64 years in the future, and there are other full title matches. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:09, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Several royal redirects have been retargetted to dabs. I've reverted King William IV but King Henry V, King Henry VII, King William III and King Henry VI are also in the top 20 of Wikipedia's most mislinked dabs. Should the English and UK kings reclaim these primary topics, or should we get on with fixing the links? Ping: Interstellarity. Certes ( talk) 17:17, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
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@ Certes and Interstellarity: Hi. The WP:DPT (via WP:POFR) suggest different ways on how to determine primary topic and none of which are absolute meaning that the final decision must be made by a consensus. Considering that it would take sufficiently long time to compare every disab statistics with the given topics (kings) I either suggest both of you to make a substentive research on the matters and make WP:RM or just fall back to the said status quo. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 20:57, 3 July 2020 (UTC) |
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:William_IV.
Interstellarity (
talk)
01:48, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
In Communism in France, Template:Europe topic creates a link to and calls the DAB page Communism in Germany. (That concept certainly deserves an article - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and the Spartacus League spring immediately to mind.) Narky Blert ( talk) 10:31, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Greatest of All Time disambiguates one topic, not known as "Greatest of All Time". G14 suggests a redirect but this seems a little harsh. Would anyone like a go at improving it? Certes ( talk) 20:33, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
In Emperor Taizu of Jin and Emperor Jingzong of Liao, {{ Cite Cambridge History of China}} is linking to DAB page Herbert Franke in the sort of way that looks easily breakable, with all sorts of potentially entertaining side-effects, if someone who doesn't understand template tries to link to Herbert Franke (sinologist) instead. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:27, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
I have seen several of these recently, and had unthinkingly assumed that one or more editors had not been checking their links. I have now discovered an IP who has been deliberately bulk-removing the piped parts of good links. Not only DABlinks have been affected; I found an instance where a link to a film had been turned into one to Railway Station. Reversion is the easy answer.
The IP I found was 2A02:C7D:2235:800:F565:2240:84B6:8D03, which is stale; it hasn't posted since 4 July. If anyone finds another, post it here; if the <insert noun of choice> is still active, there may be a case for a rangeblock. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:13, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
I'd like to apologize for making a mess of DAB links. The common term "gas mask" seems to be used for:
This ontological confusion is also reflected on Commons. I created an article on elastomeric respirators, and decided, perhaps foolishly, that Gas mask should be a disambiguation page. After manually disambiguating the first fifty links to "gas mask" (except a few where I wasn't sure), using semantic redirects so that no-one would have to do this again if Gas masks in conflict got split into, say, a WWI article and a WWII article, I realized that there were actually 570-odd more links to go. And it seems I will have to wait until 1900 UTC to use a semi-automated tool to fix.
So apologies for making a mess, I will try to clean it up, and advice is welcome. HLHJ ( talk) 00:03, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
Per WP:RM, it is mandatory to discuss a proposed move for disambiguation prior to moving." From what I'm seeing, there's no part of WP:RM that specifically states that, but I do agree that this specific case needs discussion prior to moving. Steel1943 ( talk) 03:16, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
The bot proposal at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Usernamekiran BOT 4 may be of interest. The bot's intended task is fixing dablinks resulting from primary topic moves. – Uanfala (talk) 11:46, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Members of this project may be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Rewriting WP:FIXDABLINKS (Links to disambiguated topics. – Uanfala (talk) 14:41, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
This is slightly off-topic, but we have many surname pages with incoming links. Some of them actually describe the surname, or at least a related clan or noble family, but many are effectively disambiguation pages by another name. To take but five examples, Pirandello, Cherubini, Pevsner, Primo de Rivera and Cimarosa had on average over 50 incoming links each which were intended for a listed individual. Only a handful of links from reader-facing namespaces remain, mainly See alsos from related names. Does the team think that these pages should be converted to dabs? I have many, many other cases to be taken into consideration, and should probably consult more widely before being bold, but this seems like a good place to seek wise opinion. Certes ( talk) 16:09, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
In Victoria, Brașov, Template:Infobox Romanian subdivision automatically generates a link to DAB page Coat of arms of Victoria. Any link would be circular, and there's no point in having one at all. Narky Blert ( talk) 08:45, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Disambiguation currently mentions the Python Wikipedia Robot as a tool that may be helpful when dealing with dablinks. I'm rewriting the relevant bit of the guidelines and this mention will be dropped. It was added a very long time ago (definitely before 2007, the oldest version I checked), and I have no idea if it's still relevant. If it is, then maybe it could be listed among the tools here? – Uanfala (talk) 19:20, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
I would like to join this group. How do I do that? Buufin ( talk) 04:26, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
I've run into an issue that I don't understand, so maybe someone can help me figure this out. There are currently 6 articles listed that link to the redirect page The Island, which in turn redirects to the page Island (disambiguation). All six of these articles are pages about works of Lord Byron. However, I can't find any link to The Island on these pages - they do, however, include the Template:Lord Byron, but this template only links to The Island (Byron) and not to The Island. On top of that, not every article that has this template is listed as linking to The Island, only these six. So I have no clue what's going on here! Lennart97 ( talk) 15:06, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
Saronno railway station calls DAB page Lodi railway station, presumably as an expansion from some sub-template or other because there's no Lodi in the article. The link should be to Lodi railway station (Lombardy). Narky Blert ( talk) 07:22, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
In the infobox of Thorpe Interchange, {{jct|country=GBR|M|3}} (another of my "favourite" templates - the location of the DABlink in the article wasn't immediately obvious) expands to point to DAB page M3 motorway not M3 motorway (Great Britain). Narky Blert ( talk) 11:34, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
|dab1=
. (M8 is the example in
WP:Disambiguation pages with links/Guide#Road junctions.)
Certes (
talk)
13:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC)The page United Kingdom legislation connected with the COVID-19 pandemic has been tagged as containing multiple links to disambiguation pages but I can't seem to find them or work out how to fix this. Would appreciate if someone could take a look for me.
The Template:World topic contains a link to Palestine. This is already discussed at Template talk:World topic#Palestine but no solution since then. This is hampering our effort to clear out the links to disambiguation pages. Often a link to "subject (disambiguation)" is enough to fool the bot. Can that be used here? The Banner talk 12:04, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
country["Palestine"]
would work, as explained in the discussion linked above and
here. In particular, setting it to
Palestine (disambiguation) would change the navbox links to "Foo in Palestine (disambiguation)" etc., which rarely exist.
Certes (
talk)
13:21, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
{{ Infobox artwork}} can generate phantom links to DAB pages. In Reclining Figure, Michael Dennis displayed as a blacklink; but it showed up in the DAB page what-links-here. Fortunately, my first-guess fix of [[Michael Dennis (artist)|Michael Dennis]] cured the immediate problem. Narky Blert ( talk) 11:47, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
(ifexist(name) && name!=article_title) add_to_cat(name)
. It accepts nowiki (see e.g.
Albert Lindegger); but it's a cluttering nuisance to add, and sooner or later someone will surely remove it to make the innards of the page look cleaner.|artist=
parameter equals the article title, e.g. "
Benno Rothschild artist=Benno Rothschild".
Certes (
talk)
17:55, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
On 225088 Gonggong I diambiguated Sedna and Eris, within the templates Template:Dp and Template:Mp, to 90377 Sedna and Eris (dwarf planet) respectively. This was reverted with the edit summary "Template:Dp intends to not disambiguate these pages and lead these links to their respective minor planet articles;". I don't think this would be particularly helpful to readers interested in these topics. Would any template experts take a look and see whether this is appropriate?— Rod talk 09:09, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
In
Korea under Japanese rule, |government_type=
in {{
infobox country}} expands to include [[Politics of Korea|Government]]. Unsurprisingly,
Politics of Korea is a DAB page. More surprisingly, we have no article on Korean politics 1897-1945 (except this one itself, which covers 1910-1945). I've no idea what to do with this one beyond somehow disabling the expansion and link.
Narky Blert (
talk)
11:14, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
In
Washington Progressive Party, {{
Infobox American State Political Party}} generates a link to DAB page
Politics of Washington; perhaps from the |state=
parameter, because the template doesn't know about the ambiguity.
It might be worth checking how the template handles Georgia as well. Narky Blert ( talk) 11:21, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
|politics_link=
in the template and adding it to the article. I've amended similar articles which link to
Politics of Washington (state). The Georgia articles link to US politics and there are no relevant New York articles.
Certes (
talk)
14:59, 11 November 2020 (UTC)In
Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, {{
Infobox country at games}} autogenerates a link to DAB page
Refugee Olympic Team at the Summer Olympics (piped under "overview"). I think it's doing it through |appearances=
, but I can't work how to correct it.
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:56, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
In Religion in Oman, {{ Middle East topic}} autogenerates a link to DAB page Religion in Palestine. (I do so love those "Area topic" templates.) Narky Blert ( talk) 13:13, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
|PSlink=
parameter.
Certes (
talk)
13:32, 17 November 2020 (UTC)Both UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying and UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying Group 9, in their Goalscoring sections, link to Dragan Mladenović (should be Dragan Mladenović (footballer)), not directly but through a template construction that I can't figure out, i.e. I can't find the sourcecode where this DABlink is actually created. Help would be appreciated! Lennart97 ( talk) 15:29, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
In {{
Infobox Canada electoral district}}, |prov-rep-link=
doesn't work. See
Richard Ames in
Carleton-York.
Narky Blert (
talk)
09:15, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Those with an interest in disambiguation may be interested in the RFC - "Make links to disambiguation pages orange by default" at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Make links to disambiguation pages orange by default.— Rod talk 17:04, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Usernamekiran BOT 4 was submitted for a general authorisation to fix wikilinks to dab pages following page moves. There's already input from some associated with this project, but additional thoughts and eyes on the task would be appreciated. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 13:37, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
The |residence=
field in {{
Infobox United States legislative district}} autocompletes by adding the name of the state. This is unhelpful in e.g.
Florida's 105th House district, where
Sweetwater, Florida is a DAB page. The link should be
Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County, Florida, but the template won't accept either a pipe or a pseudopipe. It'd be possible to create
Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County; but that would result in a non-standard display.
Narky Blert (
talk)
16:06, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
|residence=Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County
is not a bad solution, as it shows which Sweetwater the representative resides in. The parameter is not used elsewhere. It doesn't need a new redirect. I can't see a better way to fix it without adding parameters to the template.
Certes (
talk)
16:54, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Category:Starfire aircraft apparently contains a link to the dab page Starfire. How can this be fixed? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 22:49, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
In List of ship launches in 1988, {{ Sclass-}} expands {{sclass-|Hendijan|support vessel}} to link to the DAB page support vessel; whereas according to Iranian support vessel Konarak the link should be to Auxiliary ship. Not for the first time, I've lost patience with this template's parameters, and invite someone else to have a go. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
{{
sclass-|class name|ship type|format|qualifier}}
. format
would have to be left blank. However, that only lets us link to a title of the form "Support vessel (qualifier)", so we'd need a new redirect such as
Support vessel (auxiliary ship).
Certes (
talk)
15:46, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Thomas Anstey Guthrie imports its infobox data from
wikidata:Q3990574. That lists his |notable_works=
as
Vice Versa, which is a DAB page. It should be
Vice Versa (novel). After a failed attempt to edit Q3990574, I gave up in disgust; I've had similar problems before, and have zero interest in learning how to edit that opaque and unforgiving interface.
Narky Blert (
talk)
07:00, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
In
Samrong BTS station, |line=
in {{
Infobox station}} autocompletes Yellow to
Yellow Line, which is a DAB page. It should be
Yellow Line (Bangkok), in whichever subtemplate it is hidden.
Narky Blert (
talk)
13:32, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Bayshore station (Caltrain) has a similar issue: under 'former services', it links to 22nd Street station, should be 22nd Street station (Caltrain). Lennart97 ( talk) 14:04, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
The DPLbot is down - I'm probably not the first to notice. But I can't quite figure out who currently maintains the bot - JaGa hasn't been active for a few weeks. R'n'B maybe? Lennart97 ( talk) 21:08, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Here's another one that I can't fix: on List of Wikipedias#Detailed list, the Western Punjabi Wikipedia entry automatically links to Western Punjabi language through Template:WP7. It should just link to Punjabi language, but I don't see any options for disambiguation in the template. Lennart97 ( talk) 22:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying Group 2 and UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying generate a link to the ambiguous redirect József Horváth (footballer) using an impenetrable piece of syntax I hadn't seen before - look in the Goalscorers sections. The link should be to József Horváth (footballer, born 1949). Enough to convince me to stop for the day. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:59, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
In
Bamberg station, {{
s-line}} links to DAB page
Lichtenfels, but |link1=
doesn't work.
Sonneberg (Thür) Hauptbahnhof links to the same DAB page, by a means I'm unable to determine.
The correct link in both cases would be Lichtenfels station. Narky Blert ( talk) 09:53, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Could someone please check why United Airlines Flight 811 links to the disambiguation page Si? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 18:31, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
In Manohar Tirkey, {{ Lok Sabha succession box}} links to DAB page Alipurduars, and my attempts to pipe it to Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency) have yielded only unstylish results. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:31, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
The Community Wishlist Survey results are in. A suggestion to warn when linking to disambiguation pages finished in second place. A proposal to replace Dabfix was less popular. Certes ( talk) 14:23, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
List of snooker players by number of ranking titles links to DAB page
Canadian Masters; it should be to
Canadian Masters (snooker). I suspect it's through |cm=
in {{
Snooker ranking title winners}} (that wasn't easy to find).
Narky Blert (
talk)
13:15, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
The DAB solver has been down for a few days already now. Since not even its homepage will load, I have no idea who is responsible for this tool, but I'm assuming there's someone here who knows! Lennart97 ( talk) 13:44, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
In Kartar Singh Tanwar, {{ IN Assembly succession box}} expands Chhatarpur to Chhatarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency), which is both ambiguous and unpiped. The correct link is Chhatarpur (Delhi Assembly constituency). Narky Blert ( talk) 14:18, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Could someone please help me understand why my 260+ edits on January 1 to fix disambiguation pages such as Midnight Star and Naval Intelligence Division are not included in January's leaderboard? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 21:34, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
In Cranbourne East railway station, {{ Infobox station}} calls DAB page Clyde railway station instead of Clyde railway station, Victoria. It look as if another editor may have tried to fix the problem using an unnamed parameter; I have no idea what's going on. Narky Blert ( talk) 16:08, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Portal:Rock music/Selected genres/11 apparently has a link to heavy metal, but I can't find it there or in Glam metal. Could one of you please let me know what I'm missing? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 23:28, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Yet another problem with one of these one size-fits-all templates. In Ecozones of Canada, {{ North America topic}} expands "Canada" to Ecoregions of Canada, which is a DAB page. The link in the article should be circular, and therefore black bold. The only even partial solution I can see would be to turn the DAB page into an SIA; which would be thoroughly unsatisfactory, because one of the two entries is national and the other international. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:52, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Before implementing these templates in a topic, check for red links.I wonder if we should produce a custom navbox instead. Certes ( talk) 15:58, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
In Democratic Party of Georgia, {{ Infobox political party}} fails to distinguish between the country and the US state, twice; and the bluelink to List of political parties in Georgia is "inappropriate". Narky Blert ( talk) 16:39, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone work out what is going on with Template:Kansas House of Representatives? Several dab links to people included on the template were fixed several days ago and yet it still occurs over 100 times on Articles With Multiple Dablinks. I have tried opening the collasped template on each article & tried (unsuccesfully) to do a null edit to purge the cache. Ideas welcome.— Rod talk 09:23, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
2017–18 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim season links to DAB page Fransérgio. The link should be to Fransérgio Barbosa. It's hidden at 2017–18 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim season#Group stage, in a 2nd- or 3rd-level subtemplate of {{ Bundesliga matches}}. Having wasted 10 minutes getting that far, my patience ran out. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:05, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone find the DABlink to Germany national ice hockey team in 2020 Deutschland Cup? It doesn't show orange in view mode, and a search for "ger" in edit mode turned up nothing obvious. A WP:NULLEDIT didn't clear the link-in. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:51, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
In Government of China, {{ Asia topic}} calls DAB page Government of Taiwan. It looks superficially as if the problem could be solved by replacing "Taiwan" with "Republic of China" in the template, but I'm nervous of unintended consequences. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:02, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
|TW=Government of the Republic of China
.
Certes (
talk)
15:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)On May 1976, template:Calendar links to June 1976, while it should link to June 1976 (month). I've tried fixing that using the template's parameters, but either those don't work, or I'm doing it wrong. Lennart97 ( talk) 12:46, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
In
Theophilus Jones (soldier), |parliament3=
in {{
Infobox MP}} expands "Irish" to
Irish parliament; which to no-one's surprise is a DAB page. The link should be to
Parliament of Ireland.
Narky Blert (
talk)
15:27, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
The infobox in Kulmbach station calls the DAB page Lichtenfels. The link should be to Lichtenfels station. Narky Blert ( talk) 08:45, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
On Wisconsin Highway 150 there are links to Winchester and Clayton which should be Winchester, Winnebago County, Wisconsin and Clayton, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. The links are burried in Template:WIint where I can't see anything to edit, within Template:Jcttop. I have tried using "|ctdab=" but doesn't seem to work when there is both a county and state - I have given up.— Rod talk 12:03, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Somehow, The 5 Search links to The 6, which redirects to DAB page The Six. I've gone over every mention of the number 6 in the article and I cannot find the link. Lennart97 ( talk) 16:09, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
getNextSeasonArticle
function in
Module:Infobox television season name attempts to find a following season by incrementing the number (and dropping trailing text, for some reason). It thus looks for a sequel called The 6, which happens to redirect to a dab with no relevant entry. I don't see any easy way to get rid of the link.
Certes (
talk)
17:29, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
I've come across this particular problem with this template before. {{
Infobox attraction}} automatically wikilinks |manufacturer=
; which can produce some remarkably silly results, e.g.
various. The trick is to use |manufacturers=
instead. See
Pirates of the Caribbean (attraction) for an example.
Narky Blert (
talk)
04:29, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at Tank farm - is it/should it be a dab page?— Rod talk 12:19, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Members of and visitors to this WikiProject are invited to comment on and to contribute to a new WikiProject - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bluelink patrol. The founders think that it complements but in no way infringes on any existing WikiProject - and also, that we cannot have got everything right. Narky Blert ( talk) 22:02, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
I can't find the link to New Bridge on this page. There are no templates or other structures it could be hiding in. Where is it? Lennart97 ( talk) 14:07, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
In List of U.S. Routes in Washington#Special routes, the very first entry in the table, which currently links to U.S. Route 10 Alternate (Washington), should link to U.S. Route 10 Alternate (Washington-Montana). There's a |dab= tag, but I can't use it to link correctly as ", Washington" is automatically added to the end of the link. Is there a way to fix this? Lennart97 ( talk) 14:32, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
|type=US-Alt-plain
for {{
Routelist row}} in Washington, and deploying it in
List of U.S. Routes in Washington#Special routes.
Certes (
talk)
15:53, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
Another one, but different. Iron (metaphor) links to Iron Lady (disambiguation), intentionally and explicitly, as it should. For some reason, the monthly list still registers it as a DABlink needing fixing. Why could this be? Lennart97 ( talk) 16:18, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
There's a set of redirects, with many incoming links, titled "National Highway xxx" (e.g. National Highway 44), which are mostly redirects to pages in Category:Lists of roads sharing the same title. These are disambiguation pages in all but name, and need attention. Is there some way they could be added to this list of disambig pages with links? Colonies Chris ( talk) 23:47, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
At Huaihua South railway station, in the adjacent stations template, the next station should link to Zhijiang railway station (Hunan), not to Zhijiang railway station. Lennart97 ( talk) 08:28, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
The redirect 2020-21 Georgia US Senate runoff, while redirecting to 2020–21 United States Senate runoff in Georgia as it should, somehow contains a link to 2020–21 Georgia US Senate runoff (endash instead of hyphen), another redirect. I thought I had fixed it with this edit, but the link still appears in Special:Whatlinkshere/2020–21 United States Senate runoff in Georgia. As this link is in mainspace, it's preventing the runoffs DAB page to move from this month's "To do" to "Done". Can anyone figure out what causes this link? Lennart97 ( talk) 16:07, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
This redirect is a modification of: 2020–21 United States Senate runoff in Georgia.caused by placing a link (via {{ -r}}) within {{ R from modification}}. Using simple text rather than -r would solve the problem at the cost of making the wikilink unavailable in the redirect's reason box. Certes ( talk) 17:58, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
@ R'n'B: I'm not sure how your daily update of the monthly to do list works, but I assume it's automated in some way. Do you know why 2020–21 United States Senate runoff in Georgia is still listed as 'to do', while there really are no links to it now in mainspace? The same goes for Congo, by the way; nothing links there, but it's still under 'to do'. Lennart97 ( talk) 15:21, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
British Rail Class 59 contains a link to British Rail Class 70 (should be British Rail Class 70 (diesel)) through Template:BRC, which doesn't seem to have a dab parameter. This particular link is easily solved by simply not using the template, but it would be even better to give the template a dab parameter. Lennart97 ( talk) 15:58, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
|dab=diesel
.
Certes (
talk)
19:03, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
A subtemplate in {{ Infobox station}} in Oberstdorf station and 7 other articles is calling the ambiguous redirect Kempten station. It should link to Kempten (Allgäu) Hauptbahnhof. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:22, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
After a recent WP:RM, Cooperative gameplay needs retargetting from few hundred/thousand articles from the Cooperative game disambig to Cooperative video game. This is the usage in what seems to be 99% remaining cases. Even if the bot makes a few errors, those can be fixed on a case by case basis later. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:55, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Template:jct has a problem with
Interstate 87: if it's told |state=
Quebec, the link defaults to the DAB page. Affected articles -
Quebec Autoroute 10,
Quebec Autoroute 20,
Quebec Autoroute 30,
Quebec Autoroute 930 and
State Route 314 (New York–Vermont). Typical syntax, from the last of those articles, {{jct|state=QC|I|87|A|15|to2=yes|location1=[[Montreal]]|location2=[[Albany, NY|Albany]]}}.
Narky Blert (
talk)
11:05, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
The infobox of Elk River station links to Ramsey railway station whereas it should link to Ramsey station (Metro Transit). It does so at 'former services'. What confuses me is that under '[current] services' the link is fixed with a |link2= parameter, but this fix doesn't work for 'former services', even though it uses the very same Template:Adjacent stations. I must be missing something. Lennart97 ( talk) 14:08, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
|link2=Ramsey station (Metro Transit)
to the second {{
Adjacent stations}} worked for me too (in preview, at least).
Certes (
talk)
14:29, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
In Juyongguan railway station and Nankou railway station, {{ Adjacent stations}} links to DAB page Dongyuan railway station instead of Dongyuan railway station (Beijing). Narky Blert ( talk) 14:38, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
I've come across a couple of widely used links to articles that aren't strictly speaking dab pages, but which contain more specific sublinks; the original links could be tightened to go there directly.
On various radio station infoboxes Template:Val is used for power & when the unit "ul=" is "watts" it links to the dab page Watts. Is it possible to make this link to Watt?— Rod talk 16:28, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Another station template I can't get my head around. Template:Chongqing Rail Transit Station uses Template:CRTs which calls Template:Station link but trying to sort the link to International Expo Center station & make it find International Expo Center station (Chongqing Rail Transit) is beyond me.— Rod talk 12:01, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
At Global Hunger Index#Country rankings, Template:GHI generates a link to Famine in Sudan, a disambiguation page. I don't know how it does this, or how to change the link target. I'm also not completely sure what the link target should be, but I think an intentional dablink to Famine in Sudan (disambiguation) is the best solution, as two out of three entries on the dab page are relevant to Sudan and it's not really a problem that the third one isn't. Lennart97 ( talk) 15:42, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
He survived the famine in Sudan.However, the page does list distinct events. It's not a Transport in Georgia, but it may be a Siege of Vienna or an Athens Olympics. Certes ( talk) 23:26, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I am ever-learning here. Feeling good, mostly. Yesterday as part of some edits I added a specific link, which is also pointed to by a disambiguation page.
But looking at the disambiguation page, I saw it had relatively few out links, and multiple others were relevant to what I wanted, so ... the following is what I wrote, although below I disable endfootnote template (see Carl Jung) Archetypal images, also referred to as motifs in mythology ((efn-la|Also see general disambiguation of 'motif', covering visual arts, narrative, etcetera)), are universal symbols
I have found WP:HOWTODAB but is there another way? I am merely asking if it's technically possible. I would prefer the text the particular readable form as I wrote, which included the word but not parentheses, before even knowing this was a guideline/rule. I will rewrite it anyway with (disambiguation). Perhaps something exists like [ [:disamb:Motif#General%20concepts|general disambiguation of 'motif' ] ]... just curious. Tomacpace ( talk) 07:21, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
In List of presidents of Germany, {{ Officeholder table}} calls the DAB page None, and thee seems no obvious way to stop it (nowiki doesn't work). Narky Blert ( talk) 14:37, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
In Changle East railway station, {{ Adjacent stations}} calls DAB page Changle railway station with no obvious way to disambiguate to Changle railway station (Fujian). The same problem will occur in Fuzhou railway station if someone gets around to adding the template to that. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:31, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
I am having trouble working out how to disambiguate links using Template:MOSMETRO stations.
I have fiddled about for ages trying to fix them but with no documentation I'm struggling. Can anyone help?— Rod talk 07:58, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
A transclusion in 2020 Liga 2 (Indonesia)#West region is calling redirect-to-DAB 2021 Liga 1 rather than 2021 Liga 1 (Indonesia). Narky Blert ( talk) 14:20, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
A template in an infobox in Kuntsevskaya (Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya and Filyovskaya lines) (under "Route Map") is calling three DAB pages - Kiyevskaya, Smolenskaya and Arbatskaya. In each case, the link needs the qualifier (Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line), as in the upper part of the infobox. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:21, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
Don Quarrie links to DAB page Carl Lawson instead of Carl Lawson (sprinter). I think the link may be in {{ Footer Commonwealth Champions 4x100 m Men}} (title in the article - Commonwealth Games champions in men's 4 × 100 metres relay), but it's well-hidden: the contents of the template are different in the article from when it is viewed, and WP:NULLEDITs on both did nothing. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:05, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
Smooth Radio is currently the dab with most incoming links, by some distance. However, the editor who moved Smooth Radio (2014) has been blocked, and reversion may be in order before anyone spends time fixing links. I've left a query on its talk page. Certes ( talk) 00:48, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
In Fuzhou railway station, {{ Adjacent stations}} links to DAB page Doumen station instead of Doumen station (Fuzhou Metro). Not for the first time, there is no documented means of disambiguation. Narky Blert ( talk) 15:38, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
{{ GHI}} employs intricate features of template syntax. One feature it does not employ is an obvious way to link to DAB pages through the (disambiguation) qualifier; see the entry for Sudan in Global Hunger Index. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:24, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Something in the formatting of what appear to be transclusion tags in Edwards (surname) is making the page show up as linked from a bunch of disambiguation pages. This needs to be fixed, if someone knows how. I haven't seen this formatting anywhere else in the encyclopedia, so perhaps it should be removed. BD2412 T 18:34, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
{{#section:Alexander Edwards (disambiguation)|alex}}
. The dabs contain tags such as <section begin=alex />...<section end=alex />
. This mechanism counts as transclusion links for the purposes of WhatLinksHere etc.
Certes (
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21:51, 24 May 2021 (UTC)There are several dab links to CGCG which seem to orginate with articles using Template:Odlist. These should point to Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies but I can't see how to make this work in the template.— Rod talk 16:41, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Unless we pick it up over the next 24 hours, it looks like we are going to get barely more than half of the May 2021 list completed. BD2412 T 19:42, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
FC Steaua București is currently our most-linked dab. This old club's history is claimed by two rival current clubs, and a court decision has gone to penalty shoot-out appeal. We may soon be able to replace the dab by a redirect to the winner. Previous discussion:
Talk:FCSB.
Certes (
talk)
22:56, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
Today's report is dominated by links to new "[year] college football season" disambiguation pages, thousands of links altogether. I've brought this up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football. I hope they can confirm whether or not this new setup is valid in the first place, and if it is, help clean up the links. Lennart97 ( talk) 08:14, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
A lot of dablinks to Palestine have been popping up lately. Of these, a significant number comes from IPs going around indiscriminately changing " Israel" to " Palestine". This might be nothing new, but I hadn't encountered it before. Anyway, when you encounter a link to Palestine, it might be worthwhile to first check whether it needs fixing or just reverting. Lennart97 ( talk) 12:51, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
In Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics, {{ infobox country at games}} calls DAB page Korea at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The same infobox also calls redlinks in the range 1924-1936 (when the country was united), redirects such as Korea at the 1948 Winter Olympics → South Korea at the 1948 Winter Olympics, and post-1948 redlinks. The links are all buried somewhere. I'm not at all sure what to do with this problem, because AFAIK, 2018 is the only occasion when North and South Korea have fielded a unified team, and then only in ice hockey. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:58, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
2020 in cycling and 2021 in cycling both attract a significant of links through {{ Year nav sports topic5}}. This can probably be solved by amending said template to include the men's and women's articles separately, but I'm not sure how to best do that. Lennart97 ( talk) 13:05, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
There are about 340 pages that link to The National Archives; a rough visual check suggests that 90% of them should be piped to The National Archives (United Kingdom). Colonies Chris ( talk) 20:23, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
I am confused about Template:Infobox political party. When used on Progress and Freedom it generates links to the dab pages Politics of Georgia & Elections in Georgia both of which should link to the country articles (rather than the US state) but I can't work out how to fix this.— Rod talk 11:39, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
Greenspond links to DAB page Puffin Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, apparently by a Wikidata call (see the infobox titled Puffin Island Lighthouse). wikidata:Q106305249 and wikidata:Q22618904 may be involved. The link should either be to Puffin Island (Greenspond), Newfoundland and Labrador (a redirect to Greenspond; currently not tagged {{ R with possibilities}}) or removed.
Q106305249 relates to Puffin Island Lighthouse and thus Greenspond. If the coordinates in ceb:Puffin Island (pulo sa Kanada, Newfoundland and Labrador, lat 47,52, long -57,38) can be trusted, Q22618904 relates to neither of the islands on the enwiki DAB page. FWIW (IMO, not very much), judging from the coordinates, the island near Greenspond could be any of ceb:Puffin Island (pulo sa Kanada, Newfoundland and Labrador, lat 49,17, long -53,48), ceb:Puffin Island (pulo sa Kanada, Newfoundland and Labrador, lat 49,12, long -53,56) and ceb:Puffin Island (pulo sa Kanada, Newfoundland and Labrador, lat 49,07, long -53,55), at least. Narky Blert ( talk) 12:53, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
In
South Gippsland Highway#Major intersections and towns, the parameter |LGAS=
in {{
VICint}} expands "South Gippsland" to
Shire of South Gippsland. As is often the way with such labour-saving templates, there is no obvious way of correcting the link to
South Gippsland Shire.
Narky Blert (
talk)
13:37, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
|LGA-S=
with a hyphen adds Shire after instead of before.
Certes (
talk)
14:22, 9 July 2021 (UTC)As a result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Circa, a few thousand articles now link to the disambiguation page circa, mostly in the form [[circa|c.]]. What to do with these links? Replace them all by {{ circa}} ( c.)? Lennart97 ( talk) 19:20, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
|lk=on
:
c.
Certes (
talk)
01:52, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
|lk=on
produces
c. with a clickable wikilink to Wiktionary. If desired, we could combine the two features into
c., perhaps via a new parameter to {{
circa}} or a simple new template.
Certes (
talk)
13:08, 12 July 2021 (UTC)The title of a disambiguation page is the ambiguous term itself, provided there is no primary topic for that term.Since there is no primary topic anymore, the name of the disambiguation page should thus be Circa. Lennart97 ( talk) 17:38, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
In the 4 articles
Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services,
United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, |alt_party=
in {{
Officeholder table}} links to DAB page
Unknown, and there is no obvious way of stopping it.
({{
Infobox election}} has |party_name=
which can be set to "no"; see
2022 Italian presidential election.)
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:08, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
|alt_party=?
(and I removed "unknown" as a birth date etc.).
Certes (
talk)
15:22, 16 July 2021 (UTC)UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying Group 2 and UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying link to DAB page José Luís instead of José Luís (footballer, born 1958), by some sort of transclusion I don't understand. Narky Blert ( talk) 07:13, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
In
2021 Vijayawada Municipal Corporation election, |party5=
in {{
Infobox election}} links to DAB page
Others, and I could find obvious of way stopping it. Setting |party_name=
to "no" is indiscriminate, and |partyx_name=
or |party_namex=
seem not to exist. (cf.
#Template:Officeholder table, above.)
(I solved the problem of the link to 64 by deleting the number.) Narky Blert ( talk) 08:09, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
Following my proposal in the community wish list, which got the second highest number of votes, the community tech team have started to consider this at meta:Community Tech/Warn when linking to disambiguation pages & some discussion has stared on the talk page there. Interested editors (especially those with more technical knowledge than me), may want to get involved so that whatever solution is developed helps to reduce the number of unwanted dab links created.— Rod talk 20:46, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
In articles using Template:Infobox tennis tournament year (eg 2007 Dutch Open (tennis) the infobox creates links to previous and next years. Where there is more than one "open" eg tennis and darts this then links to the dab page. Is there any way to make this explicit to tennis within the template?— Rod talk 07:49, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi All, dabsolver seems to have been down for me for more than a couple of days; is this a problem that other people have encountered and if so does anyone have a workaround or know when it might be back online? Thanks - Furius ( talk) 01:44, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
In Privatization in Croatia and Privatization in Russia, {{ Europe topic}} (under the title Privatization in Europe) links to DAB page Privatization in Poland. I have no idea what the link should even be; Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń on the DAB page seems to be about something else. Narky Blert ( talk) 09:47, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
In Government of Bangladesh, {{ Asia topic}} masquerading as Government of Asia calls DAB page Government of Taiwan instead of Government of the Republic of China. Changing Taiwan to Republic of China in the template would solve this problem, but with unknown side effects. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:13, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi there. I recently disambiguated Hyperinflation in Yugoslavia, and I believe the preponderance of links are now unambigous, but the Special WhatLinksHere output looks like a trainwreck because we used to have this term linked from a template which was in turn linked from two other templates. This was long since fixed, but the statistics are screwed up. Is there a way to trigger a flush so this gets updated? It's been a while now and I'm worried that this recursive flush isn't going to be triggered at all (seems like a very complex operation on the scale of enwiki). Will we have to resort to a huge series of null edits? -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 18:21, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
Even some of the most experienced editors have no clue at all about this policy. I just now had to ask an editor who is in the edit count top 50 to stop removing the intentional "(disambiguation)"s from hatnotes. Some time ago, I had the same issue with a highly experienced admin. Is there anything at all we can do about this? Lennart97 ( talk) 10:22, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
Undid good-faith revision 1234567890 by User:Should know better per WP:INTDABand hope it sinks in. Certes ( talk) 11:23, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
I come as someone who is in between your two -- an admin with a decent edit history, but a long break between active periods. When I was confused, Niceguydc was super helpful in explaining what (in my opinion) wasn't clear from the edit & its summary. Is there any way the automated? summary can include info on the intentional links together with "You Can Help"? Lennart97 that's sad that you haven't found the response to be worth the effort. I feel like we should all want to improve our editing. This also seems to be an easier thing to get right than citation errors, where I've given up admittedly. Star Mississippi 00:44, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Looking beyond the very productive discussion here, it sort of seems to me like at least the basics of WP:INTDAB should be covered, or at least referenced, or at least linked to, from MOS:LINK, as that section of WP:DAB is really much more about linking than about disambiguation, even though it's currently "housed" in the Disambiguation article.
I don't think it's too controversial to suggest that far more editors read MOS:LINK than will ever read WP:DAB, and even editors who end up reading both nearly always read MOS:LINK long before they get to WP:DAB. So maybe WP:INTDAB needs to be treated as part of the linking policy, not the disambiguation policy.
Currently, in terms of DAB-related coverage, MOS:LINK has: a note in the lead that points to WP:DAB "For links on disambiguation pages" (accidentally implying that it wouldn't be relevant in WP:INTDAB-type situations); the last bullet point of MOS:LINKEXAMPLES which is no help at all in this context (actually the way it's currently written it doesn't seem like it would be particularly helpful in any context); and finally there's a link in "See Also" that leads to Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages, for the brave souls who make it that far. That's, surprisingly, kind of all there is to be found. No real guidance regarding WP:INTDAB situations is even hinted at anywhere in MOS:LINK, which I have a feeling is why WP:INTDAB has managed to stealth a lot of the community's radar. -- FeRDNYC ( talk) 05:54, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
In Christy Tyrrell, {{ Infobox GAA player}} calls DAB page All-Ireland Senior Championship rather than All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.
I recall seeing a problem with this template before; but that was with a couple of dual-code players; see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links/Archive 15#Infobox GAA player. Narky Blert ( talk) 07:36, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
|code=Football
. The previous problem was different. The template still doesn't handle female dual-code players: it assumes that they play hurling and football rather than camogie and "
ladies football", which is a separate sport for the purposes of article title semantics.
Certes (
talk)
08:06, 7 August 2021 (UTC)A revision tag may soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. Further details: m:Tech/News/2021/33. Certes ( talk) 20:13, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
Does anyone feel like turning Famine in Sudan from a DAB into a BCA? Cf. Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links/Archive 15#Famine in Sudan, March 2021. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:44, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
In Punjab Province (British India), {{ Infobox Former Subdivision}} calls DAB page Flag of Punjab by devious means. A difficulty is that Punjab under the Raj did not have its own flag, but used File:British Raj Red Ensign.svg; see Star of India (flag)#Red Ensign. This could be a case for Put Out Fewer Flags. Narky Blert ( talk) 09:05, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
|common_name=
might fix things, but the template uses that parameter in 54 places and it might require a lot of unintuitive fiddling to preserver other parts of the infobox.
Certes (
talk)
11:15, 26 August 2021 (UTC)|flag=Star of India (flag)#Red Ensign
to link to the section.
Certes (
talk)
14:23, 26 August 2021 (UTC)I don't think I've seen this before. In
Latin theta, {{
Latin script}} was calling 117(±) DAB pages of two-letter combinations. After some
WP:NULLEDITs did nothing, I
RTFMed and added |show pairs=
no .
Narky Blert (
talk)
12:18, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
|show pairs=
defaults to yes
for {{
Latin script|A–Z}}
and no
for other characters including a–z, so the other articles which may be affected are
Carolingian G and
H with descender.
Certes (
talk)
13:45, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
|-
. They look fine to me. On experimenting, taking out -
made no difference but taking out |
as well unleashed the forces of hell. A rare instance of a template where an undefined closing parameter has an useful effect.
Narky Blert (
talk)
04:49, 30 August 2021 (UTC)I invite members of this WikiProject to participate at Talk:Gestalt#Whether to include certain entries. The issue is whether the entries identifiable from this edit should or should not be included on the DAB page. Narky Blert ( talk) 19:39, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
In
Tremont station (Massachusetts), {{
Infobox station}} calls DAB page
Fairhaven station; I suspect through |line6=
, and guess from internal evidence that the station (for which we have no article) should be
Fairhaven station (Massachusetts).
Narky Blert (
talk)
12:43, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone see where Korea is linking to DAB page Politics of Korea? I can't see it and have WP:NULLEDITed the article and templates, but it refuses to go away. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:24, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
|politics_link=
parameter set to a suitable target. I'm not sure what that target should be. Previous discussion:
WT:Disambiguation pages with links/Archive 15#Phantom links to DAB pages.
Certes (
talk)
14:20, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
In
Seoul Samsung Thunders and
Aomori Wat's, {{
player3}} is reluctant to accept disambiguators for
Michael Craig and
Kim Tae-hyung. |dab=
does nothing with |name=
; nor does |link=
. Changing to the commoner |first=
|last=
|dab=
format results in blacklinks, which may or may not be an improvement over redlinks.
Narky Blert (
talk)
11:13, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
|name=
parameter in this template should be deprecated; it's clearly broken. And the blacklinks for non-existent articles appear to be by design, although I'm not sure why that choice was made. --
R'n'B (
call me Russ)
19:08, 25 September 2021 (UTC)|name=
with either |dab=
or |link=
. For links made before 2018, the article editor will have been able to check the result with a working template, so most such links should fix themselves after the template is mended, whether by reverting or by making name behave similarly to first+last.
Certes (
talk)
13:50, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
In Global Hunger Index, {{ GHI}} expnands Sudan to Famine in Sudan. One solution could be turn that DAB page into a WP:BCA or WP:SIA. Thoughts? Narky Blert ( talk) 12:48, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
The infobox in Eye of the Beholder (video game) calls Eye Of The Beholder (a miscapitalised redirect to the DAB page Eye of the Beholder) by way of wikidata:Q1385731. There were three games in the original series (I've just added the second and third to the DAB page), but there is no article about it. Deletion from Q1385731 might be the answer; but I throw my hands up and the question over. Narky Blert ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 18:06, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
I have listed Public-benefit corporation for deletion. I think this is a case where it is better to have no disambiguation page at all, and let the articles explain the distinction. BD2412 T 05:51, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
6 pages link to the ambiguous redirect Wendell (footballer), seemingly through subpages of {{ Bundesliga matches}} - DPwL link. As usual, I haven't the foggiest idea how to find them. The intended link is probably Wendell (footballer, born 1993), who played for Bayer Leverkusen 2014-2021; but without seeing the transcluded text I can't be sure. Narky Blert ( talk) 14:01, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone here confidently disambiguate links to college football seasons? My plea at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject American football#Ambiguous links to college football seasons (18/26 September 2021) has received no response whatsoever, and at least one more ambiguous link (in 1958 Little All-America college football team) has accumulated since then. Narky Blert ( talk) 01:32, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
In 988, 989 and 990, {{ Year nav}} links to DAB page Eiso instead of Eiso (era). Narky Blert ( talk) 14:10, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
In Karakalpakstan, {{ Infobox country}} calls DAB page Flag of Karakalpakstan. For added interest, we have no article and any link would be circular. Narky Blert ( talk) 14:25, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
|flag_type_article=Flag of the Republic of Karakalpakstan
(and |symbol_type_article=Coat of arms of the Republic of Karakalpakstan
to avoid linking to the Soviet emblem).
Certes (
talk)
16:07, 13 November 2021 (UTC)It has been proposed at Talk:Orthodox Church#Strongly reducing the list that "Orthodox Church" be turned into a disambiguation page, with the disambiguation project being left the task of repairing the 1,000+ incoming links that would result from that change. BD2412 T 03:24, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
I am trying to get my head around Template:Hindu festival date. Most of those at Dablink list for Karthika should probably link to Kārtika (month) but the template seems to use a different spelling and I have no idea how to edit it.— Rod talk 13:46, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
My close of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 24 § Megalomania has created, at time of writing, 359 links to DAB pages. It's a bit of an unusual case because most of those links shouldn't have existed in the first place, at least not for the past five years where that page redirected to Narcissistic personality disorder. (After all, an article describing Alexander the Great as having exhibited megalomania is presumably not trying to diagnose him with a modern-day condition, which would be WP:OR.) That leaves the question of how to handle these... For the few I've tackled so far, I've linked to Wiktionary, but I'm not sure if that's the best course of action, or if it would be better to just unlink. I'm sure there are cases where linking to NPD would be justified, just not the ones I've checked so far. Or perhaps some should be piped to things like despotism. I'm off to bed, but thought I'd raise this here before it hits the dabfix list and leads to a bunch of dabfixers all trying to fix this different ways. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 09:58, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
Could someone who is good with templates take a look at Template:Election box candidate with party link? Is it possible to change the defaults for "party".
Any help appreciated.— Rod talk 10:24, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
On 16 December Template:London Broncos was edited by User:Natg 19 to remove 2 dab links. I waited a few days expecting this to work its way through the system but on 27 December there are still around 30 articles on the list Articles With Multiple Dablinks where there are no obvious dab links & all the articles reference this template. Could someone take a look and tell me what I am missing?— Rod talk 20:27, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
A new pop up asking editors who are trying to add a link to a dab page went live yesterday. This is a result of this nomionation to the community wishlist survey a year ago. It will be interesting to see if this has an effect on the number of dab links created each day.— Rod talk 08:38, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Something on Template:Infobox hospital is generating a link to List of hospitals in the United Kingdom in 53 cases. Could this either be made a rediect to the dab page or changed in some way to link to the specific lists for England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland as appropriate? The code is beyond me and I can't see any way to change this.— Rod talk 21:26, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
|Country=United Kingdom
to |Country=England
.
Certes (
talk)
22:16, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
As far as I can see there is no such thing as a bonus list anymore for the monthly challenge – the link just redirects to the regular monthly list. Can I remove it? What was the bonus list, anyway?
Also, under Current disambiguation collaborations, "Disambiguation pages with missing links" appears to be defunct; for me at least the link has never worked. Lennart97 ( talk) 21:19, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Only back a day, and it's like I've never been away. The infoboxes in 1983 Dallas Open, 1983 Dallas Open – Doubles and 1983 Dallas Open – Singles call DAB page Dallas Open (tennis) rather than Dallas Open (1983), in one of those template-related ways I cannot be bothered to work out. Narky Blert (alt) ( talk) 16:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
In Xujiapeng station and two other articles, {{WHM stations|Science Park}} inside {{ Wuhan Metro}} links to DAB page Science Park station; I imagine the correct redlink would be Science Park station (Wuhan Metro). Narky Blert (alt) ( talk) 08:31, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
On Privatization in Croatia and Privatization in Russia a nested navbox at the bottom headed "Privatization in Europe" links to the dab Privatization in Poland. When you try to view (or edit) the template it goes to Template:Europe topic. I have no idea how to fix these or (safely) edit this template - help appreciated.— Rod talk 14:09, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Augsburg Hauptbahnhof and Freilassing station link to DAB pages Berlin station and Binz station, buried in a template. Narky Blert (alt) ( talk) 13:29, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
There are several occurances of Template:Speedway event 20heats/rider in the list at Disambig fix list for Unia Tarnów. They have a link shown as (TAR) to Unia Tarnów which should link to Unia Tarnów (motorcycle speedway). The lack of template documentation means I have no idea how to tackle this.— Rod talk 11:25, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
Can anyone work out how 2022 FC Astana season and FC Dinamo Samarqand are calling DAB page National football team (and if found, what to do about it)? Narky Blert ( talk) 10:25, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
The European League of Football (gridiron) presents potential problems. Its franchises share names with those of the defunct NFL Europe, e.g. such as Cologne Centurions (ELF) vs Cologne Centurions (NFL Europe). Titles affected are Barcelona Dragons, Berlin Thunder, Cologne Centurions, Frankfurt Galaxy, Hamburg Sea Devils and Rhein Fire. Two of these are dabs; four redirect to defunct clubs which may no longer be primary topics. Any thoughts? Certes ( talk) 11:58, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
I ahve been looking at Template:XA stations to try to fix links to Huizhanzhongxin station (list here) but I am a bit stuck - any help appreciated.— Rod talk 16:31, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
station (Xi'an Metro)
list and creating
Huizhan Zhongxin station (Xi'an Metro) as a redirect.
eviolite
(talk)
17:12, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
In Bergen auf Rügen station, Ostseebad Binz station, Stralsund Hauptbahnhof and Velgast station, {{ Adjacent stations}} expands "Koblenz or Stuttgart" to " Koblenz or Stuttgart Hbf". I'm impressed by the ingenuity with which the template handles a double parameter, less so that one of the expansions points to the DAB page Koblenz railway station. The main text in all four articles makes it clear that all links should be to Koblenz Hauptbahnhof. Narky Blert ( talk) 13:43, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
{{ WA road routes}} calls, by non-obvious means, DAB page Old Coast Road. This entry is a duplicate of Forrest Highway, immediately after it, and IMO it should be deleted; see e.g. Brand Highway. Narky Blert ( talk) 10:14, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Does anyone have an easy way to do lots of null edits - perhaps using AWB or similar? I believe all the 215 articles on Disambig fix list for Ana have links to Template:Hum TV Programs. This had a dab fix a few days ago, but (presumably because of caching issues) they have not dissapeared from the list. I did over 100 null edits recently for a similar situation and it is a bit of a pain (which may be becoming more frequent for some reason), and wondered if someone could help (I have not got on with AWB but someone more expert may be able to do this).— Rod talk 16:12, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Hey, I was wondering how the DAB Challenge leaderboard worked. I know I've corrected more than ten dablinks that have shown up on reports (both with AWB and with dab fixer), but I'm still not on it. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 01:58, 16 March 2022 (UTC) (ETA word at 01:58, 16 March 2022 (UTC))
Per the recently elapsed WP:RM discussion, I have now moved the disambiguation page, "Hollywood", to Hollywood. There are some 10,000 links to fix, and a cursory start indicates that intended targets are neatly mixed between the locality, Hollywood, Los Angeles, and the abstraction Hollywood (film industry), with a smattering of other targets popping up. BD2412 T 18:29, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
List of learned societies in Australia links to DAB page Barton. The link should be Barton, Australian Capital Territory. This needs an edit to wikidata:Q5377913, and I seriously cannot be arsed to struggle to work out how to make it. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:40, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Another head scratcher I can't quite understand. We have both Carignano & Carignano (disambiguation) with one duplicate & no links between them. I've only noticed this when looking at Disambig fix list for Carignano & trying to work out where they should go (a lot should be House of Savoy-Carignano but this can't be seen on Carignano). I am easily confused.— Rod talk 16:47, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
There are currenty quite a few dab links to Civil court which redirects to Civil law but there are also some to Civil Court which redirects to Lawsuit. Often on the Disambig fix list for Civil law I am unsure what should be going where - is anyone more knowledgeable able to help?— Rod talk 15:49, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
In
Garrison station (Metro-North), |other_services=
calls DAB page
Cold Spring station. I think the link should be
Cold Spring station (Metro-North), as in |services=
just above.
Narky Blert (
talk)
10:32, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
In Urban rail transit in China, some template or other fails to recognise that Convention & Exhibition Center station is ambiguous - twice. This should be redlinked as Convention and Exhibition Center station (Dalian Metro). Narky Blert ( talk) 11:20, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Reports such as Templates with disambiguation links claim to be updating as normal but do not actually change. This may be due to wiki replica replication having stopped. Main discussion: WP:VPT#System problem? and phab:T310325. Certes ( talk) 01:11, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
On Propaganda in Russia, Propaganda in Belarus, Propaganda in Spain, Propaganda in the Polish People's Republic and possibly others, a template entitled "Propaganda in Europe" appears at the bottom of the page. This includes 3 dab links, however when I try to view or edit the template it takes me to Template:Europe topic which has template protection. The code says {{Europe topic|Propaganda in}} but I can't find this. Help appreciated.— Rod talk 17:27, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
|DE=Article name
wherever the template is used, or ideally in a new {{
Propaganda in Europe}} navbox to keep the article choices in one place. However, I don't think any article fits the bill. Similar considerations apply to Italy and the UK. Could
Propaganda in Germany/Italy/UK become a set index or similar fudge?
Certes (
talk)
19:51, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
{{
Europe topic}}
from those pages, and replace it with either a navbox of specific links to existing articles, or no navbox at all. (No navbox
is a valid option.)@ JaGa, @ R'n'B, and all other interested parties:
Dabsolver is currently down. Embarrassingly enough, as an Apple user, I'm somewhat dependent on it. I'm just leaving a note here so those able to either fix it or sound an alarm to those who can can do just that. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 06:48, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
The article Bids for the 1998 Winter Olympics uses the template {{ Infobox Olympic bid}}. The "winner" field in that template creates two links, one in the Overview section that links to the winning city's bid article (in this case Nagano bid for the 1998 Winter Olympics, which is a self-redirect), and one in the Decision section that links to the article for the winning city. The problem is that the city of Nagano is not the primary topic for the term—the correct article is Nagano (city)—so the link created by the template goes to the dab page Nagano. All the other recent host cities are the primary topics for their names, so I couldn't find any example of how to produce the correct link. Can anyone fix this, or is there a work-around? — ShelfSkewed Talk 19:18, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
An editor has requested for TBD to be moved to another page. Since you had some involvement with TBD, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 07:44, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
Could someone with a working copy of AWB (or similar) do null edits on the list of articles linking to Template:Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City? A couple of dab fixes were done to Template:Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City on 1 October but, for some reason, the articles which include the template are still showing at the list of Articles With Multiple Dablinks. I am unable to get AWB working at present.— Rod talk 08:29, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Can an expert in templates take a look at Template:Infobox road to get the link in the infobox for Indian roads to point to Puducherry (union territory) rather than Puducherry? I have tried both the "|state=" & "|territories=" parameters with both the full name and the abbreviation "PY" and can't get this to work. The Dablink list for Puducherry shows where it appears.— Rod talk 10:31, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi all, I just recently moved Show and tell to Show and tell (disambiguation) per this discussion close. And Show and tell (education) to Show and tell. But I think there are likely to be a lot of links to that DAB page that now go to the wrong place (the PTOPIC)... I fixed the redirect for " Show & Tell" because that is very obviously for the Filipino TV show. But I'm not sure how to handle the rest of the incoming links to that page. Would appreciate your help on this, let me know your thoughts...— Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 15:15, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
The Template:Districts of Turkey is used on several articles (listed here). It includes a link to the dab page Derecik - presumably in the "Districts" section which transposes another template from somewhere & I can't work out where. Help appreciated.— Rod talk 12:58, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
On this list dablinks are shown to Nuclear energy in Iran. They are generated by a navbox at the bottom of each article headed "Nuclear energy in Asia". When trying to edit this you are taken to Template:Asia topic and I can't see any way to change the entry for "Iran" to stop the dab link and perhaps point to Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant as Nuclear program of Iran seems to be about nuclear weapons rather than power generation.— Rod talk 10:45, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi all, I've sent a request to those responsible for the Europe templates to address the propaganda in Germany, Italy and United Kingdom dablinks. It's a protected template, so hopefully someone can make the corrections required :-) . ColRad85 ( talk) 07:57, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
At the bottom of Football in the United Kingdom (and presumably others) there is a template where the title is a red link to Football in the World. Viewing or trying to edit takes you to Template:World topic with no indication of how to get to the football specific one. It includes links to dab pages Football in Canada & Football in the United States. As the rest of the links are to Association football presumably these should link to Soccer in Canada & Soccer in the United States. Any ideas how to fix these?— Rod talk 16:41, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
|link_Canada=Soccer in Canada
to override the article titles. (Template:World topic would not need changes; it would pass these through seamlessly.)
Certes (
talk)
17:24, 3 December 2022 (UTC){{
World topic|Football in}}
doesn't seem to be used elsewhere. Like
Rodw, I just presumed this would be common to most countries, and I should have checked before bothering to fix it. Perhaps it'll get adopted now it actually works.
Certes (
talk)
10:42, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Could someone who is good with appropriate tools (possibly petscan or similar) put togtehr a list of all the articles listed at Disambiguation pages with links (currently 6800+) which contain the word "station" in their title? My impression is that there are more of these articles appearing on the Daily Disambig and that they are staying longer. I assume this may be because the links are hidden within "Infobox station", "Adjacent stations" etc making them more difficult to fix (and not show up in DisamAssist). I am aware that some links may be in articles about railway lines or transport systems and therefore may not be included but, once the list is created, we could post a message at Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains (and one or two key individuals who frequently use these templates) asking them to help resolve them.— Rod talk 14:37, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
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{{
stn|Name|Disambiguator}}
, which should be {{
stn|Name||Disambiguator}}
, unlike {{
STN|Name|Disambiguator}}
which works because stn and STN require their parameters in a different order. Only an experienced station disambiguation specialist is likely to get anything vaguely complicated right first time.
Certes (
talk)
21:01, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
I would love it when the station-Cabal can agree on a standard way to disambiguate stations and make those templates easier to fix. The Banner talk 11:47, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Question: is there a daily report that members of WikiProject Trains can look at? I'm happy to help with these issues, and I can probably find and fix them pretty fast. Mackensen (talk) 14:30, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
I put together a rough and not especially optimized query at WP:QUARRY: [8]. This looks for articles whose talk pages include {{ WikiProject Trains}} that link to disambiguation pages. Mackensen (talk) 03:40, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
{{
stn|Foo}}
→ {{
stn|Foo||Bar}}
), let alone making intricate changes to Lua modules.
Certes (
talk)
12:34, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Last week I edited Template:IHL to change a link after a page move. I had moved Chicago Hounds to Chicago Hounds (ice hockey team) and edited the link in the template to point to the new location. Chicago Hounds is now a dab page, but the template links still seem to be pointing to it. Is there any quicker way of changing all the links, apart from doing a blank edit on the articles used in the template? Bcp67 ( talk) 11:08, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
Thanks Certes, it was the null edit I had in mind- wasn't sure of the correct term. I'll just go through the articles and do that. Thanks again. -- Bcp67 ( talk) 13:35, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
@ Tassedethe: http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/view/File_viewer#log:missing_entries-enwiki.log still works for me, and a look at directory http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/logs/ suggests that the data is being updated. Certes ( talk) 19:13, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
The articles in this list have links to Constitution of Chile which seem to arise from a template titled "Constitutions of states and dependencies in the Americas". When you try to view or edit the template it takes you to Template:Americas topic and I can't see how to fix this.— Rod talk 22:06, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
I've noticed User:DPL bot is adding the {{ Incoming links}} template, but not removing it when the links have been fixed. You can see the category Category:Disambiguation pages with many incoming links has pages tagged going back months. The few I've looked at don't appear to have any incoming links. I left a note with the bot owner User:JaGa but they appear to be inactive (1 edit on Jan 1, before that September). Not sure if anything can be done without the owner? Tassedethe ( talk) 16:47, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
Howdy disambiguators. I'm stumped on page Florida's 6th Senate district, within Template:Election box I'm trying to disambiguate Unaffiliated to Independent politician and for the life of me can't figure out how to do it. Curious to see how it's fixed. Peace- J04n( talk page) 17:35, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at the list of acronyms articles. Where an acronym is followed by several potential uses I have been linking to the dab page but where there is one acronym followed by one use it seems pointless to link both the acronym & the specific article:
Interested in the thoughts of others.— Rod talk 17:45, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
On Diocese of the Windward Islands there is a navbox headed "Diocese of the Americas" which includes 6 dab links. When you attempt to view or edit this it goes to Template:Americas topic and I can't see how to fix the links. Help appreciated.— Rod talk 14:18, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
{{
Americas topic|Diocese of}}
or {{
Americas topic|Football in}}
. There is just one navbox template, which isn't intended to be edited; it uses its parameters to construct a large number of links, which must be in certain predefined formats. So using |Diocese of
}} and nothing else produces links to
Antigua and Barbuda,
Argentina,
Bahamas,
Barbados etc. and if one of these pages is moved to another name and the resulting redirect is repurposed as a dab page, you will get the problems that you describe. The template depends upon a set of articles having a consistent naming pattern. See
Template:Americas topic#1st parameter (prefix). --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
22:07, 27 February 2023 (UTC)|link_Belize=the Anglican Diocese of Belize
. However, is "Diocese of" the best parameter value? Many of these countries have Catholic dioceses too. Maybe we want something like {{
Americas topic|Anglican diocese of}}
, creating redirects where the article is called simply Diocese of Foo (but carefully leaving the Catholic ones red).
Certes (
talk)
22:36, 27 February 2023 (UTC)We have a situation with the article Dallas. The IP editor 109.225.76.100 ( talk · contribs) has been at war for two years with the (disambiguation) redirects in that article's hatnote. Narky Blert attempted to persuade them to stop in October 2021, so conversation has been tried and failed. Nick Number restored the redirects on a later occasion, and I have warned them twice and restored the redirects at least three times. My last fix was reverted, and I'm not entirely certain the IP's edits constitute vandalism, so I don't want to get an edit-war suspension. Any thoughts on how to proceed? — ShelfSkewed Talk 19:54, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
It is every Wikipedia user's duty to know what they are linking tohad never filled me with enthusiasm. TY to Dekimasu for correcting this error again. IP's edits to Dallas are definitely not WP:VAND, though they do smack of WP:CIR; and it's certainly not a case of WP:THEYCANTHEARYOU, because they know about their TP. Their other edits - well, I've seen worse and some are perfectly good. To me, this looks too slow-moving for WP:PP or any sort of sanction. I suggest more eyes and reversions on Dallas if they persist, in the hope they learn. Sigh.
It is every Wikipedia user's duty to know what they are linking to- are we to assume that every link to a disambiguation page is intentional? Leschnei ( talk) 22:32, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
Is it just me (and my computer setup) or are some of the lists being shortened?
Does anyone know why this should be happening & anything that can be done to fix it?— Rod talk 12:14, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Can anyone work out what is going on at Y with loop? There are lots of 2 letter links to dab pages in the template "Lating Script" but these don't appear at Template:Latin script and I have no idea what they should be linking to or what they are meant to mean.— Rod talk 13:42, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
For any disambiguators looking for something to do while the replication lag prevents our reports from working, a move has caused Universal history to become a disambiguation page with a little under 200 incoming links. - Niceguyedc ( talk) 12:03, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Could those knowledgeable about links to dab pages in templates/navboxes take a look at the discussion at Template talk:Africa topic#Disambiguation link on Law enforcement in Africa? I asked for a link to Law enforcement in Western Sahara to be changed in a protected template, but this has not been possible. Any ideas/comments appreciated.— Rod talk 16:19, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
There is a possible issue with a disambiguation finder on toolforge. I have started a discussion here and am asking for assistance/input if possible. Thanks! Primefac ( talk) 09:32, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
Major has been moved to Major (rank) following a RM, and the dab to the base name. I just fixed the 200 affected templates, but there are still over 6,000 articles to fix. As usual, a few of them may refer to other uses of "major". Certes ( talk) 11:35, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
Major is now finished or at least down to negligible proportions. Thanks to all who helped. Today's awkward move is Al Jazeera; discussion here. Certes ( talk) 19:11, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
I think something, similar to my query above, may be going on with Formation in the Template:Infobox Indian state or territory. I can't see any other reason why these articles are producing the error.— Rod talk 16:34, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
|formation_date3=formation
which indicates a
bifurcation from another state. This idea is supported by the incoming links for
Formation1, used in |formation_date2=formation1
. I don't see exactly how it's getting linked though.
Certes (
talk)
18:15, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Can anyone work out what is causing links to Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy. There are 15 articles shown at Disambig fix list for Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy but I can't see where. They have Template:USSecNavy in common but this was last edited in June. Any ideas appreciated.— Rod talk 15:19, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
{{{office|}}}
rather than the names of the parameters filled in the data beneath the label, which appears to have activated these links. ‑‑
Neveselbert (
talk ·
contribs ·
email)
16:33, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
|office=
parameter is missing (or blank) we'll just check the existence of
Deputy.
Certes (
talk)
17:36, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
On several articles ( 1835 Liverpool Town Council election, 1836 Liverpool Town Council election, 1839 Liverpool Town Council election, 1840 Liverpool Town Council election, 1841 Liverpool Town Council election) there is a link to "Reformers" in Template:Election summary party which should go to Whigs (British political party) but I can't work out what is happening in the template. (NB it works in the infobox but not in the Election results per ward). Any help appreciated.— Rod talk 17:46, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
Great work in the last 24 hours to reduce the links to Sydney Football Stadium from 1,000+ to 24 however these seem to be generated by links to "Allianz Stadium" in Template:Rugby union stadium ("RUS") and I can't see any way to dab in this template.— Rod talk 10:40, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Does abyone know if a tweak has been made to bot operations over the last couple of days. When
Today's Dablink Report is published all articles are struckthrough as if they have been edited and on
Templates with disambiguation links articles are no longer struckthrough when they have been edited.—
Rod
talk
18:15, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Several articles (shown on this list) include a template titled "Romani people in Asia" but when you try to edit this it takes you to a protected Template:Asia topic. On the 2nd line of "Sovereign states" there is a link to Iran which should go to one or other (or both of the articles at Romani people in Iran. Any help sorting this one out wiuld be appreciated.— Rod talk 17:47, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
I was wondering who wrote/created/maintains the Toolforge DAB Challenge tool?-- Commander Keane ( talk) 20:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC)