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I'm hoping to end the discussion for a good while about primary topic for "Reading" by creating some special redirects to the most common meanings and watching their traffic over time, as I've seen done in at least a couple other cases. Anyone have suggestions for what to name those special redirects, or is there anyone that can point me to one of those prior cases as I can't actually think of an example? -- Fyrael ( talk) 21:35, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
I found this WikiProject as I came across the dab for Duncan Campbell. Although the sub-headings are clear, I wondered about changing the entries in each sub-headings to be chronological. The Style guide says 'Entries are typically ordered first by similarity to the ambiguous title, then alphabetically or chronologically as appropriate'. Is this generally best practice for people? Emain Macha ( talk) 12:16, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Macedonian art has become a dab with incoming links from several articles such as
Art of Romania ([show] the "European art" template at the foot). I could edit all such articles to read {{
European topic||art|MK=Art of the Republic of Macedonia}}
but that feels wrong, especially as the Republic's name may soon change. Is it best to produce a simple new template {{
European art}} where we can code such variations in one place, or is there a better solution? I'm sure this sort of thing must have come up before.
Certes (
talk)
12:28, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
It has been suggested that Wikimedia software be able to warn editors when adding links to dabs. See m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Editing#Avoid links to disambiguation pages. Certes ( talk) 17:55, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Мой аккаунт логин Intersetuz был заблокирован бессрочно, по причинам: Обход блокировок администраторам Q-bit_array. Я редактировал другие вики-сайты (аналог Википедии) имеющий схожесть к этой википедии. Здесь в главную википедию просто интерес у меня не было. Зарегистрировался и задал вопрос: "Узбекский википедии заблокировали в Узбекистане. С прокси не могу редактировать. Что сделать", Q-bit_array все мои вклады откачивал и заблокировал. Как такой может быть? Какой ещё обход? Вы меня с кем-то перепутаете. Мой IP провайдер texnopromsistem в прошлый год, новогода, бесплатно раздавал статический IP для создание серверы. В результате некоторых IP блокировались в другие аналог вики (ссылку не дам, спам). Пришлось подать заявку на получение Ташкентский IP и вот дали от 185----197. Я понятые не имею действие администратора Q-bit_array. Если надо, я могу подтверждать свою личности, что он меня перепутает с других вандалов. 185.248.45.8 16:38, 4 ноября 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.248.45.8 ( talk)
Please see, and comment at, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Anthroponymy#Lists_of_people_sharing_a_common_name. – Fayenatic London 12:00, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
If one wanted to nominate a mainspace DAB page for deletion, which venue is the appropriate location? John from Idegon ( talk) 03:36, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
A proposal has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Proposal: Move deletion of disambiguation pages from G6 → A12 to move the speedy deletion criteria regarding disambiguation pages from a sub-criteria of G6 to a new criterion A12. This would not change what pages are eligible for speedy deletion. Please leave any comments in the linked discussion. Thryduulf ( talk) 12:07, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
I stumbled across this and wondered whether to fix as a disambiguation or classify as a stub broad-concept article. I'm not sure, I would welcome opinions in the discussion on the talk page. Thank you. MegaSloth ( talk) 13:13, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Great White Hope is a set index. At present it cites several dictionaries for the etymology of the nickname, but neither the set index nor most of the linked pages include references to verify individual holders of the nickname. Comments are requested at Talk:Great White Hope#Sources for individual people? Cnilep ( talk) 08:31, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Is there a tool to view click counts of each links in a disambiguation page? e.g. which one of the links in Peter Adamson get clicked the most by the user? I feel this will be useful to inform whether there should be a "primary article" for a disambiguation page. HaEr48 ( talk) 00:28, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Sectoral: is this useful as a list of partial title matches, or does its presence hinder the use of Search? Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 07:49, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
Sectoral can refer to…; I don't think that single word can refer to any of the meanings listed. As you say, they're PTMs, and several other titles beginning with "Sectoral" are not listed. I'm always reluctant to delete content but I'm not sure that this page is helpful. Certes ( talk) 12:25, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
Further opinions are welcome at Talk:Thunderfoot on the primary topic when we have a misspelling / leet primary redirect. Widefox; talk 15:30, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
Please see a new how-to guide I wrote on Surname pages. I welcome comment. It's really an anthroponymy project page, but it covers some issues related to disambiguation pages as they relate to lists of people with common surnames as well. Coastside ( talk) 11:21, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Any want to improve this:
The restaurant is probably the primary topic. Beyond that, I'm not sure what else makes sense. MB 17:30, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
A discussion regarding the above question, at Talk:William McFarland#Requested move 26 January 2019 may be of interest. Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 19:58, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Thoughts on the disambiguation for School spirit and School Spirit? Only came across those two after I added the redirect for School Spirit (Into the Dark). -- / Alex/ 21 03:36, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
I'd appreciate another couple of eyes please at Talk:Lunar#Edit reversion 16 Feb 2019. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 19:44, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
What should we do about Sarangapur? I've just fixed links to several villages called Sarangapur, none of which have articles, so the dab is good for detecting misdirected links. On the other hand, I don't see much value in a list of redlinks which fail WP:DABMENTION, so I'm tempted to boldly replace it by a redirect. Advice welcome. Certes ( talk) 14:39, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Due to a discussion about Huntington disease and Sydenham's chorea, both been referred as Saint Vitus dance, a disambiguation page was created Saint Vitus dance, but Saint Vitus' dance (disambiguation) exist, what to do? -- MaoGo ( talk) 16:43, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
St Vitus' danceis a standard phrase, more like the official names discussed in the following subsection. Certes ( talk) 00:26, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
What's important is that we have the full set of redirects to this dab page from St/St./Saint Vitus/Vitus'/Vitus's Dance/dance - and I think we've got most, if not quite all of them, in place (should be 17 of them: 3x3x2-1): good work there. Pam D 10:08, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
An RfC is underway at Talk:Ministry of Transport#RfC: Transport governance article titles which may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Please feel free to comment. Triptothecottage ( talk) 10:16, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I wanted to change the redirect target for Democratic Action from Democratic Action (Venezuela) to Democratic Action Party (disambiguation). However, I realized that doing so created too many incoming links to the dab page that were meant for Democratic Action (Venezuela). Hence I am requesting help from someone with AutoWikiBrowser to fix the incoming links so that the target page can be corrected, as the generic Democratic Action title should redirect to the disambiguation page if there is no primary topic. Bennv3771 ( talk) 04:00, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
The split of parts of the former speedy deletion criterion G6 into a dedicated new criterion for dab pages WP:G14 appears to have incentivised the tagging for deletion of perfectly acceptable dab pages. I've come across several weird taggins so far, so maybe editors in this project could be interested in keeping an eye on G14 nominations? These are tracked at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages? – Uanfala (talk) 23:04, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I just added missing entries and descriptions to Renaissance (disambiguation). I'd appreciate a second opinion, especially on the Cultural movements section. The page is long and many entries are blatant PTMs, but I think they add some value. Do we need a separate List of renaissances or similar? Certes ( talk) 02:31, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
This needs a fix as the first entry is piped which causes confusion with the actual singer. But I think it probably doesn't belong at all since the person in the target article is named only "Jisoo" (without a hyphen) and the without the surname "Kim". Just lookingfor a second opinion. MB 02:08, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
There's a discussion on the use of subsection redirects on the London Bridge (disambiguation) page, at Talk:London_Bridge_(disambiguation).
I'd appreciate some brief third party input on the points raised if anyone has the time. Thanks! Ubcule ( talk) 14:23, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Project members may be interested in a discussion at WT:CSD#G14. Certes ( talk) 02:08, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
There is a disambiguation page for Canas and it mentions that Canas can refer also to Cañas.
However, given that when you search Rio Cañas you find lots of articles, shouldn't another disambiguation page be created for Rio Cañas or should Rio Cañas instances be added to the Canas disambiguation page?
The following Río Cañas exist in Puerto Rico and there are barrios named Río Cañas (and other variants) as well.
name - GNIS -municipality
Río Cañas 1612455 Aguada
Río Cañas 1612449 Caguas
Río Cañas 1612451 Juana Díaz
Río Cañas 1612453 Mayagüez
Río Cañas 1612454 Naranjito
Río Cañas 1612452 Ponce
Río Cañas 1612450 Sabana Grande
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Level C (
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02:02, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
If anyone's bored, I could use help with a bizarre little conversation where this user insists that putting a circular link at the bottom of a dab page is a good idea. I just can't figure out what they're thinking. -- Fyrael ( talk) 18:30, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
You've probably come across the daily report which tracks some types of missing entries from dab pages. The number of dab pages with missing entries – today that's 12,654 – tends to go down very, very slowly (my estimate is that at this rate it will reach zero in a couple of decades). However, most of that downward trend is due to the untiring activities of one or two editors, and when they take a break, the total number immediately shoots up. If they stopped editing altogether, the number will start increasing pretty fast.
So where is this upward trend coming from? I compared the missing entries reports for two dates 13 days apart, and the newer one had 284 articles not present in the older report. A very small number of these are due to vandalised dab pages and the like, but the overwhelming majority are articles that have been created in the intervening period. Of course, over time as editors stumble upon stuff, some of them will eventually get added to the dab pages, but there doesn't seem to be any systematic way of ensuring this happens.
We can't rely on the missing dab reports, as they only cover some possible cases: for example they don't ignore titles with comma-separated disambiguators as it's technically difficult to filter out the false positives, and obviously they don't deal with natural disambiguators. So it's not possible to track all missing entries like that. So, the big question is what way is there for us to make sure that dab pages get updates as new articles get created? One radical solution is to delete all dab pages – that way users will always see the search results, where no article gets left out. But other than that, what options are there? – Uanfala (talk) 03:12, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
BANDES is a Venezuelan bank that should be written Bandes (acoording to their page and logo). The problem is that Bandes is a disambiguation page that includes BANDES and Susan Bandes. Would it be a problem to move BANDES->Bandes and forget the disambiguation page? I do not think Susan Bandes is a valid disambiguation.-- MaoGo ( talk) 11:56, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
[Susan] Bandes joined the DePaul faculty, but the bank may still be the primary topic. It's in the news this week but may not yet have shown enough long-term significance. Personally I think it's slightly better to leave things as they are, but that's just one opinion and others may come along to disagree. I've also added another person to the dab. Certes ( talk) 13:07, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, anybody hanging around to see if this fits somewhere in the Wanderlust (disambiguation) page? Thank you for your time. Lotje ( talk) 11:56, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Any thoughts on 🔫? older ≠ wiser 01:40, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
The discussion at Talk:Trevor James#Requested move 3 April 2019 may be of interest. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:25, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Two minor points came up at RST 1. "Organizations and enterprises" vs "Organizations" 2. ordering inside a section: a (minor) DABMENTION acro vs spelled out articles titles forming the ambiguous term as acros. More opinions are welcome at Talk:RST. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Widefox ( talk • contribs) 23:50, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
There's currently a discussion about how to apply MOS:DABACRO to Star Wars film titles that could be abbreviated as AOTC, ROTS, ANH, ROTJ, TFA, TLJ, etc. Interested editors may wish to join the discussion at Talk:TPM#Missing acronyms. Thank you. — Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 01:47, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Winged_Victory_(statue)#Disambiguation re: disambiguation and the title of Winged Victory (statue). Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 18:14, 15 May 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.
Hello, I asked this question on the help desk but I am crosslisting here just in case a veteran disambiguator has a quick fix. Currently Russell Library redirects to Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. I would like to change the redirect page to a disambiguation page that includes Russell Library (St. Patrick's College). Thanks in advance for any help. AugusteBlanqui ( talk) 12:49, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
The pages Northern (country subdivision), Eastern (country subdivision), Southern (country subdivision), and Western (country subdivision) have apparently existed since 2006 as a kind of quasi-disambiguation. Each consists of bulleted links to other DAB pages (e.g. Northern District (disambiguation), Northern Division (disambiguation) etc.), but they were only recently tagged as disambiguation pages as such, thanks to the sharp eyes of User:King of Hearts and User:Bkonrad aka older≠wiser.
My question is, do these pages serve a useful purpose? They seem rather like incomplete disambiguation, but I don't think that redirecting the titles to e.g. Northern (disambiguation)#Geography would be particularly helpful. Personally, I wouldn't think that people would either link to or search for these titles. Is it worth cleaning them up somehow, or should they be nominated for deletion? Cnilep ( talk) 05:16, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
The pages are now deleted. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 16:54, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
At the moment we have Uphill which is an article about a village, but I don't see any Disambiguation page for Uphill, I was struggling to find Dennis Uphill yesterday, do we have a disambiguation page? Govvy ( talk) 09:51, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
I've changed the redirect Lo-fi into a disambiguation page and retargeted a number of redirects to it, but this has resulted in a large number of incoming links. If you'd like to help me fix them then I'd be grateful: "low fidelity" or "lo-fi" usually needs to link to:
Thanks, Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 09:25, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
There is a requested move at Talk:Lo-fi (disambiguation) that would be benefited by your opinion. Please come and help! Paine Ellsworth, ed. put'r there 16:35, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
When are interlanguage links appropriate on DAB pages? I've noticed, for example, that User:Dispenser's 'Dabfix' tool sometimes suggests {{ ill}} links. User:Не А recently added several {{ Interlanguage link}} to Curia (disambiguation), but it's not clear to me that the redlinks belong on the page, as no en:Wikipedia pages link to those titles. The only thing I can find at WP:Disambiguation ("interlanguage links only where a similar problem of disambiguation exists in the target language") seems to relate to the languages bar, rather than links within the DAB page. Cnilep ( talk) 11:16, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
WP:Disambiguation#Sister projects: "Disambiguation entries should not be created for subjects whose only content is on pages of sister projects (including other-language Wikipedias)" appears to be the guideline we're looking for. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 19:46, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:Allopathic medicine#Make this page a disambiguation page. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 03:48, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi. The Category:Lists of people sharing a surname has some articles generated by an automate bot from the related bio or infobox templates, and then contributed by editors. A similar bot is bused on it.wikipedia for the same category ([[w:it:Categoria:Liste di persone per cognome]]).
There are about 399 WP articles with the word "Cortes" in the title, and I am looking forward to extract from WP how many of them are biographies. So, I tried with the search engine, but probably there are some errors in the query and it doesn't work.
Un my opinion, this bot may be hopefully launched for pages such as Cortes (surname), Castro and De Castro ( 977 articles), Fernández ( 1486 articles), Hernández ( as many) Rodrigues (surname), Rodríguez (surname), as examples of possible widespread Spanish surnames.
It may be of interest for other future edits. Micheledisaveriosp ( talk) 11:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
Cortes intitle:/ Cort[eéè]s/ insource:/ategory:.*([Pp]eople|[Bb]irth|[Dd]eath)/
. It won't be perfect but may be an improvement.
Certes (
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11:29, 19 June 2019 (UTC)More opinions are welcome at Talk:Calibra. Widefox; talk 09:39, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Do "De rerum natura" and "De natura rerum" mean the same thing? I ask because of the dab page De natura rerum and its entries, which at first glance seem counterintuitive. — Gorthian ( talk) 04:15, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
What is the correct procedure for linking to pages that are currently disambiguation pages but have been tagged as needing to be converted to broad-concept articles? Specifically, I recently included a link to British folklore in the article for Pokémon Sword and Shield, which was subsequently tagged as needing disambiguation by Narky Blert. I feel that British folklore is the correct destination article for the link as the cited source just refers to "legends in the UK" rather than anything more specific, but I'm also not really familiar with the specific workings of dab cleanup, so I figured my best bet was to ask here. Lowercaserho ( talk) 14:32, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
If you type Stolas you don't go to the disambiguation page, you go to one article. How do I change that please? I'm sure I found a Wikipedia article Stolas on the stolas beetle, but I can't find it now! Charlesjsharp ( talk) 08:44, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Should this kept be as a dab? After removing the redlinks, there would only be three PTs left. Maybe they should all be kept, but in a List article? MB 17:47, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 40 | ← | Archive 45 | Archive 46 | Archive 47 | Archive 48 | Archive 49 | Archive 50 |
I'm hoping to end the discussion for a good while about primary topic for "Reading" by creating some special redirects to the most common meanings and watching their traffic over time, as I've seen done in at least a couple other cases. Anyone have suggestions for what to name those special redirects, or is there anyone that can point me to one of those prior cases as I can't actually think of an example? -- Fyrael ( talk) 21:35, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
I found this WikiProject as I came across the dab for Duncan Campbell. Although the sub-headings are clear, I wondered about changing the entries in each sub-headings to be chronological. The Style guide says 'Entries are typically ordered first by similarity to the ambiguous title, then alphabetically or chronologically as appropriate'. Is this generally best practice for people? Emain Macha ( talk) 12:16, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Macedonian art has become a dab with incoming links from several articles such as
Art of Romania ([show] the "European art" template at the foot). I could edit all such articles to read {{
European topic||art|MK=Art of the Republic of Macedonia}}
but that feels wrong, especially as the Republic's name may soon change. Is it best to produce a simple new template {{
European art}} where we can code such variations in one place, or is there a better solution? I'm sure this sort of thing must have come up before.
Certes (
talk)
12:28, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
It has been suggested that Wikimedia software be able to warn editors when adding links to dabs. See m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Editing#Avoid links to disambiguation pages. Certes ( talk) 17:55, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Мой аккаунт логин Intersetuz был заблокирован бессрочно, по причинам: Обход блокировок администраторам Q-bit_array. Я редактировал другие вики-сайты (аналог Википедии) имеющий схожесть к этой википедии. Здесь в главную википедию просто интерес у меня не было. Зарегистрировался и задал вопрос: "Узбекский википедии заблокировали в Узбекистане. С прокси не могу редактировать. Что сделать", Q-bit_array все мои вклады откачивал и заблокировал. Как такой может быть? Какой ещё обход? Вы меня с кем-то перепутаете. Мой IP провайдер texnopromsistem в прошлый год, новогода, бесплатно раздавал статический IP для создание серверы. В результате некоторых IP блокировались в другие аналог вики (ссылку не дам, спам). Пришлось подать заявку на получение Ташкентский IP и вот дали от 185----197. Я понятые не имею действие администратора Q-bit_array. Если надо, я могу подтверждать свою личности, что он меня перепутает с других вандалов. 185.248.45.8 16:38, 4 ноября 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.248.45.8 ( talk)
Please see, and comment at, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Anthroponymy#Lists_of_people_sharing_a_common_name. – Fayenatic London 12:00, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
If one wanted to nominate a mainspace DAB page for deletion, which venue is the appropriate location? John from Idegon ( talk) 03:36, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
A proposal has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Proposal: Move deletion of disambiguation pages from G6 → A12 to move the speedy deletion criteria regarding disambiguation pages from a sub-criteria of G6 to a new criterion A12. This would not change what pages are eligible for speedy deletion. Please leave any comments in the linked discussion. Thryduulf ( talk) 12:07, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
I stumbled across this and wondered whether to fix as a disambiguation or classify as a stub broad-concept article. I'm not sure, I would welcome opinions in the discussion on the talk page. Thank you. MegaSloth ( talk) 13:13, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Great White Hope is a set index. At present it cites several dictionaries for the etymology of the nickname, but neither the set index nor most of the linked pages include references to verify individual holders of the nickname. Comments are requested at Talk:Great White Hope#Sources for individual people? Cnilep ( talk) 08:31, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Is there a tool to view click counts of each links in a disambiguation page? e.g. which one of the links in Peter Adamson get clicked the most by the user? I feel this will be useful to inform whether there should be a "primary article" for a disambiguation page. HaEr48 ( talk) 00:28, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Sectoral: is this useful as a list of partial title matches, or does its presence hinder the use of Search? Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 07:49, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
Sectoral can refer to…; I don't think that single word can refer to any of the meanings listed. As you say, they're PTMs, and several other titles beginning with "Sectoral" are not listed. I'm always reluctant to delete content but I'm not sure that this page is helpful. Certes ( talk) 12:25, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
Further opinions are welcome at Talk:Thunderfoot on the primary topic when we have a misspelling / leet primary redirect. Widefox; talk 15:30, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
Please see a new how-to guide I wrote on Surname pages. I welcome comment. It's really an anthroponymy project page, but it covers some issues related to disambiguation pages as they relate to lists of people with common surnames as well. Coastside ( talk) 11:21, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Any want to improve this:
The restaurant is probably the primary topic. Beyond that, I'm not sure what else makes sense. MB 17:30, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
A discussion regarding the above question, at Talk:William McFarland#Requested move 26 January 2019 may be of interest. Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 19:58, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Thoughts on the disambiguation for School spirit and School Spirit? Only came across those two after I added the redirect for School Spirit (Into the Dark). -- / Alex/ 21 03:36, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
I'd appreciate another couple of eyes please at Talk:Lunar#Edit reversion 16 Feb 2019. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 19:44, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
What should we do about Sarangapur? I've just fixed links to several villages called Sarangapur, none of which have articles, so the dab is good for detecting misdirected links. On the other hand, I don't see much value in a list of redlinks which fail WP:DABMENTION, so I'm tempted to boldly replace it by a redirect. Advice welcome. Certes ( talk) 14:39, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Due to a discussion about Huntington disease and Sydenham's chorea, both been referred as Saint Vitus dance, a disambiguation page was created Saint Vitus dance, but Saint Vitus' dance (disambiguation) exist, what to do? -- MaoGo ( talk) 16:43, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
St Vitus' danceis a standard phrase, more like the official names discussed in the following subsection. Certes ( talk) 00:26, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
What's important is that we have the full set of redirects to this dab page from St/St./Saint Vitus/Vitus'/Vitus's Dance/dance - and I think we've got most, if not quite all of them, in place (should be 17 of them: 3x3x2-1): good work there. Pam D 10:08, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
An RfC is underway at Talk:Ministry of Transport#RfC: Transport governance article titles which may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Please feel free to comment. Triptothecottage ( talk) 10:16, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I wanted to change the redirect target for Democratic Action from Democratic Action (Venezuela) to Democratic Action Party (disambiguation). However, I realized that doing so created too many incoming links to the dab page that were meant for Democratic Action (Venezuela). Hence I am requesting help from someone with AutoWikiBrowser to fix the incoming links so that the target page can be corrected, as the generic Democratic Action title should redirect to the disambiguation page if there is no primary topic. Bennv3771 ( talk) 04:00, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
The split of parts of the former speedy deletion criterion G6 into a dedicated new criterion for dab pages WP:G14 appears to have incentivised the tagging for deletion of perfectly acceptable dab pages. I've come across several weird taggins so far, so maybe editors in this project could be interested in keeping an eye on G14 nominations? These are tracked at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages? – Uanfala (talk) 23:04, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I just added missing entries and descriptions to Renaissance (disambiguation). I'd appreciate a second opinion, especially on the Cultural movements section. The page is long and many entries are blatant PTMs, but I think they add some value. Do we need a separate List of renaissances or similar? Certes ( talk) 02:31, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
This needs a fix as the first entry is piped which causes confusion with the actual singer. But I think it probably doesn't belong at all since the person in the target article is named only "Jisoo" (without a hyphen) and the without the surname "Kim". Just lookingfor a second opinion. MB 02:08, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
There's a discussion on the use of subsection redirects on the London Bridge (disambiguation) page, at Talk:London_Bridge_(disambiguation).
I'd appreciate some brief third party input on the points raised if anyone has the time. Thanks! Ubcule ( talk) 14:23, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Project members may be interested in a discussion at WT:CSD#G14. Certes ( talk) 02:08, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
There is a disambiguation page for Canas and it mentions that Canas can refer also to Cañas.
However, given that when you search Rio Cañas you find lots of articles, shouldn't another disambiguation page be created for Rio Cañas or should Rio Cañas instances be added to the Canas disambiguation page?
The following Río Cañas exist in Puerto Rico and there are barrios named Río Cañas (and other variants) as well.
name - GNIS -municipality
Río Cañas 1612455 Aguada
Río Cañas 1612449 Caguas
Río Cañas 1612451 Juana Díaz
Río Cañas 1612453 Mayagüez
Río Cañas 1612454 Naranjito
Río Cañas 1612452 Ponce
Río Cañas 1612450 Sabana Grande
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If anyone's bored, I could use help with a bizarre little conversation where this user insists that putting a circular link at the bottom of a dab page is a good idea. I just can't figure out what they're thinking. -- Fyrael ( talk) 18:30, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
You've probably come across the daily report which tracks some types of missing entries from dab pages. The number of dab pages with missing entries – today that's 12,654 – tends to go down very, very slowly (my estimate is that at this rate it will reach zero in a couple of decades). However, most of that downward trend is due to the untiring activities of one or two editors, and when they take a break, the total number immediately shoots up. If they stopped editing altogether, the number will start increasing pretty fast.
So where is this upward trend coming from? I compared the missing entries reports for two dates 13 days apart, and the newer one had 284 articles not present in the older report. A very small number of these are due to vandalised dab pages and the like, but the overwhelming majority are articles that have been created in the intervening period. Of course, over time as editors stumble upon stuff, some of them will eventually get added to the dab pages, but there doesn't seem to be any systematic way of ensuring this happens.
We can't rely on the missing dab reports, as they only cover some possible cases: for example they don't ignore titles with comma-separated disambiguators as it's technically difficult to filter out the false positives, and obviously they don't deal with natural disambiguators. So it's not possible to track all missing entries like that. So, the big question is what way is there for us to make sure that dab pages get updates as new articles get created? One radical solution is to delete all dab pages – that way users will always see the search results, where no article gets left out. But other than that, what options are there? – Uanfala (talk) 03:12, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
BANDES is a Venezuelan bank that should be written Bandes (acoording to their page and logo). The problem is that Bandes is a disambiguation page that includes BANDES and Susan Bandes. Would it be a problem to move BANDES->Bandes and forget the disambiguation page? I do not think Susan Bandes is a valid disambiguation.-- MaoGo ( talk) 11:56, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
[Susan] Bandes joined the DePaul faculty, but the bank may still be the primary topic. It's in the news this week but may not yet have shown enough long-term significance. Personally I think it's slightly better to leave things as they are, but that's just one opinion and others may come along to disagree. I've also added another person to the dab. Certes ( talk) 13:07, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, anybody hanging around to see if this fits somewhere in the Wanderlust (disambiguation) page? Thank you for your time. Lotje ( talk) 11:56, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Any thoughts on 🔫? older ≠ wiser 01:40, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
The discussion at Talk:Trevor James#Requested move 3 April 2019 may be of interest. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:25, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Two minor points came up at RST 1. "Organizations and enterprises" vs "Organizations" 2. ordering inside a section: a (minor) DABMENTION acro vs spelled out articles titles forming the ambiguous term as acros. More opinions are welcome at Talk:RST. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Widefox ( talk • contribs) 23:50, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
There's currently a discussion about how to apply MOS:DABACRO to Star Wars film titles that could be abbreviated as AOTC, ROTS, ANH, ROTJ, TFA, TLJ, etc. Interested editors may wish to join the discussion at Talk:TPM#Missing acronyms. Thank you. — Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 01:47, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Winged_Victory_(statue)#Disambiguation re: disambiguation and the title of Winged Victory (statue). Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 18:14, 15 May 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.
Hello, I asked this question on the help desk but I am crosslisting here just in case a veteran disambiguator has a quick fix. Currently Russell Library redirects to Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. I would like to change the redirect page to a disambiguation page that includes Russell Library (St. Patrick's College). Thanks in advance for any help. AugusteBlanqui ( talk) 12:49, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
The pages Northern (country subdivision), Eastern (country subdivision), Southern (country subdivision), and Western (country subdivision) have apparently existed since 2006 as a kind of quasi-disambiguation. Each consists of bulleted links to other DAB pages (e.g. Northern District (disambiguation), Northern Division (disambiguation) etc.), but they were only recently tagged as disambiguation pages as such, thanks to the sharp eyes of User:King of Hearts and User:Bkonrad aka older≠wiser.
My question is, do these pages serve a useful purpose? They seem rather like incomplete disambiguation, but I don't think that redirecting the titles to e.g. Northern (disambiguation)#Geography would be particularly helpful. Personally, I wouldn't think that people would either link to or search for these titles. Is it worth cleaning them up somehow, or should they be nominated for deletion? Cnilep ( talk) 05:16, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
The pages are now deleted. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 16:54, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
At the moment we have Uphill which is an article about a village, but I don't see any Disambiguation page for Uphill, I was struggling to find Dennis Uphill yesterday, do we have a disambiguation page? Govvy ( talk) 09:51, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
I've changed the redirect Lo-fi into a disambiguation page and retargeted a number of redirects to it, but this has resulted in a large number of incoming links. If you'd like to help me fix them then I'd be grateful: "low fidelity" or "lo-fi" usually needs to link to:
Thanks, Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 09:25, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
There is a requested move at Talk:Lo-fi (disambiguation) that would be benefited by your opinion. Please come and help! Paine Ellsworth, ed. put'r there 16:35, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
When are interlanguage links appropriate on DAB pages? I've noticed, for example, that User:Dispenser's 'Dabfix' tool sometimes suggests {{ ill}} links. User:Не А recently added several {{ Interlanguage link}} to Curia (disambiguation), but it's not clear to me that the redlinks belong on the page, as no en:Wikipedia pages link to those titles. The only thing I can find at WP:Disambiguation ("interlanguage links only where a similar problem of disambiguation exists in the target language") seems to relate to the languages bar, rather than links within the DAB page. Cnilep ( talk) 11:16, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
WP:Disambiguation#Sister projects: "Disambiguation entries should not be created for subjects whose only content is on pages of sister projects (including other-language Wikipedias)" appears to be the guideline we're looking for. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 19:46, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:Allopathic medicine#Make this page a disambiguation page. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 03:48, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi. The Category:Lists of people sharing a surname has some articles generated by an automate bot from the related bio or infobox templates, and then contributed by editors. A similar bot is bused on it.wikipedia for the same category ([[w:it:Categoria:Liste di persone per cognome]]).
There are about 399 WP articles with the word "Cortes" in the title, and I am looking forward to extract from WP how many of them are biographies. So, I tried with the search engine, but probably there are some errors in the query and it doesn't work.
Un my opinion, this bot may be hopefully launched for pages such as Cortes (surname), Castro and De Castro ( 977 articles), Fernández ( 1486 articles), Hernández ( as many) Rodrigues (surname), Rodríguez (surname), as examples of possible widespread Spanish surnames.
It may be of interest for other future edits. Micheledisaveriosp ( talk) 11:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
Cortes intitle:/ Cort[eéè]s/ insource:/ategory:.*([Pp]eople|[Bb]irth|[Dd]eath)/
. It won't be perfect but may be an improvement.
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11:29, 19 June 2019 (UTC)More opinions are welcome at Talk:Calibra. Widefox; talk 09:39, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Do "De rerum natura" and "De natura rerum" mean the same thing? I ask because of the dab page De natura rerum and its entries, which at first glance seem counterintuitive. — Gorthian ( talk) 04:15, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
What is the correct procedure for linking to pages that are currently disambiguation pages but have been tagged as needing to be converted to broad-concept articles? Specifically, I recently included a link to British folklore in the article for Pokémon Sword and Shield, which was subsequently tagged as needing disambiguation by Narky Blert. I feel that British folklore is the correct destination article for the link as the cited source just refers to "legends in the UK" rather than anything more specific, but I'm also not really familiar with the specific workings of dab cleanup, so I figured my best bet was to ask here. Lowercaserho ( talk) 14:32, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
If you type Stolas you don't go to the disambiguation page, you go to one article. How do I change that please? I'm sure I found a Wikipedia article Stolas on the stolas beetle, but I can't find it now! Charlesjsharp ( talk) 08:44, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Should this kept be as a dab? After removing the redlinks, there would only be three PTs left. Maybe they should all be kept, but in a List article? MB 17:47, 8 July 2019 (UTC)