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(I posted this same question to WP:Help Desk#Koga links, and it was suggested I come here, which I should have tried first.)
Koga is a dab page. I'm trying to disambiguate links to it, but there are four articles ( Cyclingteam Jo Piels, List of Mitsubishi–Jartazi rosters, Mitsubishi–Jartazi, and SEG Racing Academy) where I cannot find any instances of the word "koga". Yet all four link to the dab page itself (not to redirects). I have searched the source and looked for content in templates that might have the link. Nothing. Some use is made of Wikidata, and I tried looking over there to see if I could find anything. Since all the articles have to do with European cycling teams, and because there is a Dutch brand of bicycles called KOGA, I thought maybe there was a team member whose former team was sponsored by Koga. I did not finish going through the list; I got fed up and decided to try to get some help. Any ideas? — Gorthian ( talk) 21:36, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
It looks as if Nick Number has the same problem with Ulan. I'll see if I can get an answer over there.— Gorthian ( talk) 03:12, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I´m the one how has written the Lua Module Cycling race. I have deleted the module in article Mitsubishi–Jartazi and the link to Koga disappeared. The next step was to look into the item d:Q2607744 where the team members are listed. I could not find a link to Koga. After that, I have deleted all the members of that team in the item but the error did not disappear. I have deleted the module in the article once more, the link disappeared and this time the link did not appear again after inserting the module again. And after reverting the wikidata item the link is still gone. I don´t know if the link to Mitsubishi–Jartazi is gone now. I don´t think that the lua module is the reason for this problem, therefore I will ask the Wikidata developers to have a look at this problem. see d:Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team#Problem -- Molarus ( talk) 07:13, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone know why the sort order has gone bizarro, or is it just me? It's showing for me as A, 0-9, K, then B-J and L-Z. Narky Blert ( talk) 22:10, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
The page Azaka (disambiguation) has the template R to disambiguation page. It redirects to Azaka, which has the template Disambig.
I don't think Azaka should be treated as a DAB page. It's really strange to have a DAB page redirecting to another DAB page. More important, despite its brevity its two links are (literally) related, and the term "Azaka" really does refer to a single item. To quote the page:
Also, why are the links Azaka (disambiguation) and Azaka showing up in orange? I know what red links are, but this is new to me. Is orange something new for DAB page links?
Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. -- Thnidu ( talk) 18:13, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
All or almost all of the links from this template (60+ by my count) are to DAB pages, but "This template employs intricate features of template syntax" which I lack the knowledge to repair, and which look hideously time-consuming to decipher. Can anyone help? Narky Blert ( talk) 23:30, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Cut Bank (disambiguation), Cutbank (disambiguation), and Cut Bank (which redirects to Cut Bank, Montana). older ≠ wiser 12:57, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
You're welcome to comment here: Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links#Cooling-off period before disambiguating new dablinks. Uanfala ( talk) 21:38, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
That is incorrect to build a distinct page for Iranian mythology without reliable sources . Existence of Iranian peoples does not mechanically means the same/corresponding relationship exists in mythologies ! As an example , Ossetian mythology can not be grouped with Persian mythology and no source support that they are in one group , in other hand , almost no separate Kurdish mythology exist that is not covered by Iranian/Persian mythology : they are literally one thing ! And who said that (RS ? ) the Scythian religion is a part of "mythology" ? I think we may omit the page "Iranian mythology" and redirect the title to the more known , and better sourced , Persian mythology . -- Alborz Fallah ( talk) 05:28, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
I split out a large section from Warrant to Warrant officer (disambiguation). It seems to contain a lot of partial-name matches, though. (Canadian Forces Chief Warrant Officer, SAF Warrant Officer School, etc.) If anybody has ideas about cleaning up (or re-merging, or deleting) that page, I'd be happy to see them. Cnilep ( talk) 03:32, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Members of this WikiProject may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention. It has two titles, neither primary, but the parenthesis lead to incompdab tagging. Cnilep ( talk) 05:20, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
I turned this from a redirect into a DAB page a couple of hours ago. I'm onto it, and think that as a loyal subject of QEII ("Gawd Bless 'Er!") I can sort out the links-in on my own. I'll follow through with the links to Royal warrant of appointment, which are also a mess. However, it's past 1 AM here, so I'd appreciate being given 24 hours to clean this lot up. Narky Blert ( talk) 00:12, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
More editors' attention would be appreciated at Talk:Bo#Material cited to Urban Dictionary, where there is a disagreement about what kind of material is appropriate for disambiguation pages. Thank you. — Granger ( talk · contribs) 11:18, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Someone else may want to help keep an article stub from being inserted into the lede for A Good Day to Die. -- JHunterJ ( talk) 17:54, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
Dead cat is just rife with partial title matches, which the current lvoters seem to be just fine with. Help! Clarityfiend ( talk) 19:21, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Proposal: keep two-item dab pages for a proposal that would essentially overturn wp:TWODABS guideline. -- do ncr am 22:17, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
More opinions are sought about a redirect and SIA Neo Tokyo it targets (was recently converted from a dab to an SIA) Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2016_September_24#Neo_Tokyo_.28disambiguation.29 . Widefox; talk 22:28, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
There's discussion about merging Lua language and Lua’ language at Talk:Lua’ language. Widefox; talk 11:57, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Just noticed some edits at Podesta, Podesta (disambiguation), Podestà, and Podestà (disambiguation) that seems to have resulted in a misnamed surname article and some redirects from "(disambiguation)" pages that aren't to disambiguation pages. I'm not ready to sort that out at the moment, but wanted to bring some attention to it. older ≠ wiser 12:41, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
It's the first time I've seen this type of issue, or at any rate the first time I've been confident enough to raise it.
A semi-professional footballer is WP:PRIMARY - seriously? I am minded to move Ben May to Ben May (footballer), and to turn Ben May into a {{ hndis}} page after shifting the info now in Ben May (disambiguation) into it, and then to turn Ben May (disambiguation) into an everyday redirect. Thoughts? Narky Blert ( talk) 01:05, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
I used to see three-letter-word dab pages to be like:
Boi or BOI may refer to:
But recently Uanfala ( talk · contribs) to split 'Dit' from 'DIT'. I failed to find a guideline to this end.
BTW, I see
Bob or B.O.B. may refer to:
Shouldn't it be
Bob, BOB or B.O.B. ... ?
Please comment. Staszek Lem ( talk) 17:38, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
I've just stumbled upon the following wording in
WP:DPAGE (emphasis mine):
Editorial judgement should be used in deciding whether to combine terms in the ways described above (except for differences in capitalization, which invariably share a disambiguation page)
Now, as it reads, it seems to command against the exercise of editorial judgement when it comes to capitalisation variants. That's odd, isn't it?
Uanfala (
talk) 12:36, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
except for differences in capitalization, which should normally/always share a disambiguation page
Terms which are commonly so combined include...
Terms which differ only in capitalization, punctuation and diacritic marks.(emphasis mine) The part in parentheses directly contradicts this. I agree that the parenthetical statement should just be removed, both for its contradiction and for unnecessarily muddying the statement about editorial discretion.
I've always kept them on one page, unless the page length gets too unwieldyand bd2412's
I generally combine the uppercase and lowercase unless there are too many to fit neatly on a single page.Uanfala ( talk) 21:10, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
There is an objective reason why capitalization is singled out: it is quite often the same term may be written in no-cap/all-cap/CamelCase/etc. Staszek Lem ( talk) 18:23, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Is there a policy regarding the use of Template:Ill when there are redlinks that have articles on other wikies Agathoclea ( talk) 15:27, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
A discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics#Classical compound might affect Barbarism (disambiguation) and Abuse of language (disambiguation). Therefore, some contributors to this project might be interested in that discussion. Cnilep ( talk) 03:08, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello, could someone please look at Joseph Heller (disambiguation)? I'm trying to avoid getting into an edit war, but editor is repeately adding entry which doesn't meet MOS:DABRL or MOS:DABMENTION and feels I have 'so much hatred towards people called Joseh Heller.' Thanks for any help, Boleyn ( talk) 20:37, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
I'n not sure if William Tunberg (artist) needs to be disambiguated. There are no other articles titled William Tunberg and I think the disambiguation was just added in error by an inexperienced editor who created the article. Is there some policy/guideline reason why the "(artist)" part is needed? I'm really not too familiar with this type of thing and not familiar at all with what happens when an article is un-disambiguated, so would be really grateful for any clarification that anyone can provide. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 14:13, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Marchjuly, thanks for your message. There are incoming links to William Tunberg for a notable screenwriter. I will make it a disambiguation page and resolve the links. Best wishes, Boleyn ( talk) 14:58, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Currently Reanalysis links to six articles, but only one of those six ( Folk etymology) says its topic is sometimes called "reanalysis". Meteorological reanalysis and ocean reanalysis each use the term, but they are partial name matches. Rebracketing and Back-formation are each a kind of folk etymology, so the ambiguity is not out of the question, but might not bear DAB treatment. Statistics doesn't mention reanalysis at all, but does talk about analysis.
In addition, Reanalysis (linguistics) currently links to the relevant section of the DAB page. Should this link to the DAB, or to folk etymology, since that's the only article that uses the term?
Is this DAB page necessary? It's not unimaginable that a reader might be looking for the partial-names or the subtypes, but it's not obvious that a DAB page is the way to go.
FYI, I started to rewrite the DAB page, but thought it would be better to get more opinions. My draft is in my sandbox, here. Cnilep ( talk) 03:02, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Is List of storms named Ada still of interest to this WikiProject? It was boldly moved from Cyclone Ada (disambiguation) but the WikiProject DAB template was left on the talk page. Should I remove the template?
This also has relevance to a rather long and involved RM at Talk:Hurricane Stan (disambiguation)#Requested move 22 October 2016 which may result in a similar move (but this time after much discussion). Andrewa ( talk) 01:28, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello WP Disambiguation members! I noticed that you make extensive use of RecentChangesLinked to produce your Project watchlist. Here's a couple Wishlist Survey proposals related to making watchlists like this more productive:
Please consider and vote on these by December 12. Thank you for your time! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:16, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
This redirect page is now discussed at RfD. I invite you to comment there. -- George Ho ( talk) 18:54, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
There are three redirects at RfD that you are welcome to comment on; please visit!
— Gorthian ( talk) 20:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
I invite you to the reopened ongoing RM discussion. -- George Ho ( talk) 08:11, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, is there in the eyes of the rest of you sufficient cause or not to maybe add names from various editions of the Marquis Who's Who and similar works to dab pages of names or would that maybe wind up getting excessive? John Carter ( talk) 17:26, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
I invite you to the ongoing RM discussion. -- George Ho ( talk) 03:38, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
This requested move may be of interest to project participants. — Gorthian ( talk) 18:49, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
Disambiguation experts might like to chime in at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Policy_regarding_.22see_also.22s_for_bands where an editor is unhappy with pages such as Lethargy, believing that the hatnote is a form of promotion for the band, and wants to change all our policies in this area to create 2-entry dab pages even where there is a primary topic! Pam D 09:58, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
I wouldn't normally mention a RM request here, but as no-one has yet responded to the RM above, I believe some input from neutral disambiguators would be helpful at the link above. -- NSH001 ( talk) 07:26, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
The RfD Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 January 13#Tylenol might be of interest to this project. Tylenol (a drug brand) currently redirects to Paracetamol (Tylenol's active ingredient), yet at the same time there is a stand-alone page about the brand: Tylenol (brand). -- HyperGaruda ( talk) 09:09, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
There's an editnotice on a dab at Template:Editnotices/Page/ATV that states "Attention editors! No red links. ..." . It is being discussed at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2017_January_12#Template:Editnotices.2FPage.2FATV. Widefox; talk 10:03, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Should these two be one?
Cheers, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:09, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
I see WP:DPAGE says it's okay. I'll move the plurals to the singular. Please revert and yell at me if that's not okay. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:15, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
I have tagged this page as a WP:DABCONCEPT. It primarily seems to be a list of storms described as superstorms, not a disambiguation page. bd2412 T 15:13, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
There is a (somewhat disorganized) RfC being held at Talk:Nissan_Caravan#RFC on disambiguation hatnotes for 'Caravan' named vehicles seeking to determine whether longstanding disambiguation hatnotes distinguishing Nissan Caravan and Dodge Caravan which were removed unilaterally by User:Mr.choppers in opposition to other editors prior to initiating an RfC should instead remain in place/be restored in some form. -- Kevjonesin ( talk) 20:44, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
I am utterly defeated by this tangle of articles:
I can't tell if that fact that I can't make heads or tails of these is my own ignorance or the failings of the articles. Probably a combination of both. I welcome any ideas about how to make these make sense. — Gorthian ( talk) 04:49, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
For anyone interested, additional eyes on this page would be appreciated. Editors are adding two links that redirect to the same target, which makes no mention that either term is known by the initials. older ≠ wiser 13:54, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
I started the discussion about handling pages related to hurricanes and tropical storms disambiguated by years: Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Pages about hurricanes and tropical storms. I invite you to the discussion. -- George Ho ( talk) 07:52, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
The redirect, Communist era, is currently under discussion, recently relisted. I invite you to the RFD talk. -- George Ho ( talk) 20:00, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Please take a look at Lead (disambiguation) and its talk page. Its not covered by MOS:DAB AFAICS. Christian75 ( talk) 07:29, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
The redirect, Democrat Party (United States), is relisted. I invite you to comment. -- George Ho ( talk) 01:48, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I've just created an article about a leaf beetle, Zygogramma suturalis, which shares a common name with a different species Ophraella communa. The common name 'Ragweed leaf beetle' currently redirect to the latter page. It needs a disambiguation, but such witchcraft is currently beyond my ken. Here's hoping the fine folks here will be able to resolve. Zakhx150 ( talk) 16:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
Input from this project would be useful at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 February 28#Robert Brown (botanist), particularly in relation to how WP:PRIMARYTOPIC applies in this case. Peter coxhead ( talk) 20:13, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
I could use some help in explaining why Treaty of London is not a disambiguation page. The discussion is at Talk:Treaty of London#This is not a dab page, with some early comments on my talk page. Thanks. — Gorthian ( talk) 19:04, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Recently Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruddy closed as "link to Wiktionary". The closing admin, User:Czar, implemented this by making Ruddy into a DAB with Wiktionary template and content merged from Ruddy (surname), as well as the names of several bird species.
The problem, as I see it, is that the non-surname content consists almost entirely of partial-name matches: mostly birds that are not, as far as I can see, called simply ruddies or the like. Would it make more sense to have the page contain only the content of the former surname page plus the Wiktionary template, maybe in a See also section?
I will invite WikiProject Color and WikiProject Birds to comment here, as someone from these three projects will no doubt have better ideas than I do. Cnilep ( talk) 02:08, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Comments from project members are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ancient tree. — Gorthian ( talk) 20:36, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
A row is developing, with accusations of edit-warring, mostly over whether it's necessary to include the abbreviation "(TNA)" alongside every entry, etc. See Talk:TNA#Reversionary_edits. Pam D 09:11, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi all. I'd like to invite you to participate in the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, about our movement's overall goals, "What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?". It's currently in the first stage, of broad discussion. There are further details in the related metawiki pages (FAQ, lists of other simultaneous communities' discussions, etc). (Also, if you're interested in helping facilitate and summarize the discussions here, and to bring back here the summaries of what the other communities are discussing, please let me know. Thanks. :) Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 00:50, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion ongoing about whether Donald Trump should be hatnoted as the "Incumbent President of the United States", or various other possibilities. Input would be welcome. Talk:Donald_Trump#Why_is_.22incumbent.22_necessary_in_the_hatnote.3F Siuenti ( talk) 18:13, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
There's discussion at Talk:Signalberg about adding a German translation to 1. the lede 2. a wikt link (or two, for a compound noun) . Widefox; talk 21:28, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
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(I posted this same question to WP:Help Desk#Koga links, and it was suggested I come here, which I should have tried first.)
Koga is a dab page. I'm trying to disambiguate links to it, but there are four articles ( Cyclingteam Jo Piels, List of Mitsubishi–Jartazi rosters, Mitsubishi–Jartazi, and SEG Racing Academy) where I cannot find any instances of the word "koga". Yet all four link to the dab page itself (not to redirects). I have searched the source and looked for content in templates that might have the link. Nothing. Some use is made of Wikidata, and I tried looking over there to see if I could find anything. Since all the articles have to do with European cycling teams, and because there is a Dutch brand of bicycles called KOGA, I thought maybe there was a team member whose former team was sponsored by Koga. I did not finish going through the list; I got fed up and decided to try to get some help. Any ideas? — Gorthian ( talk) 21:36, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
It looks as if Nick Number has the same problem with Ulan. I'll see if I can get an answer over there.— Gorthian ( talk) 03:12, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I´m the one how has written the Lua Module Cycling race. I have deleted the module in article Mitsubishi–Jartazi and the link to Koga disappeared. The next step was to look into the item d:Q2607744 where the team members are listed. I could not find a link to Koga. After that, I have deleted all the members of that team in the item but the error did not disappear. I have deleted the module in the article once more, the link disappeared and this time the link did not appear again after inserting the module again. And after reverting the wikidata item the link is still gone. I don´t know if the link to Mitsubishi–Jartazi is gone now. I don´t think that the lua module is the reason for this problem, therefore I will ask the Wikidata developers to have a look at this problem. see d:Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team#Problem -- Molarus ( talk) 07:13, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone know why the sort order has gone bizarro, or is it just me? It's showing for me as A, 0-9, K, then B-J and L-Z. Narky Blert ( talk) 22:10, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
The page Azaka (disambiguation) has the template R to disambiguation page. It redirects to Azaka, which has the template Disambig.
I don't think Azaka should be treated as a DAB page. It's really strange to have a DAB page redirecting to another DAB page. More important, despite its brevity its two links are (literally) related, and the term "Azaka" really does refer to a single item. To quote the page:
Also, why are the links Azaka (disambiguation) and Azaka showing up in orange? I know what red links are, but this is new to me. Is orange something new for DAB page links?
Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. -- Thnidu ( talk) 18:13, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
All or almost all of the links from this template (60+ by my count) are to DAB pages, but "This template employs intricate features of template syntax" which I lack the knowledge to repair, and which look hideously time-consuming to decipher. Can anyone help? Narky Blert ( talk) 23:30, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Cut Bank (disambiguation), Cutbank (disambiguation), and Cut Bank (which redirects to Cut Bank, Montana). older ≠ wiser 12:57, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
You're welcome to comment here: Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links#Cooling-off period before disambiguating new dablinks. Uanfala ( talk) 21:38, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
That is incorrect to build a distinct page for Iranian mythology without reliable sources . Existence of Iranian peoples does not mechanically means the same/corresponding relationship exists in mythologies ! As an example , Ossetian mythology can not be grouped with Persian mythology and no source support that they are in one group , in other hand , almost no separate Kurdish mythology exist that is not covered by Iranian/Persian mythology : they are literally one thing ! And who said that (RS ? ) the Scythian religion is a part of "mythology" ? I think we may omit the page "Iranian mythology" and redirect the title to the more known , and better sourced , Persian mythology . -- Alborz Fallah ( talk) 05:28, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
I split out a large section from Warrant to Warrant officer (disambiguation). It seems to contain a lot of partial-name matches, though. (Canadian Forces Chief Warrant Officer, SAF Warrant Officer School, etc.) If anybody has ideas about cleaning up (or re-merging, or deleting) that page, I'd be happy to see them. Cnilep ( talk) 03:32, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Members of this WikiProject may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention. It has two titles, neither primary, but the parenthesis lead to incompdab tagging. Cnilep ( talk) 05:20, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
I turned this from a redirect into a DAB page a couple of hours ago. I'm onto it, and think that as a loyal subject of QEII ("Gawd Bless 'Er!") I can sort out the links-in on my own. I'll follow through with the links to Royal warrant of appointment, which are also a mess. However, it's past 1 AM here, so I'd appreciate being given 24 hours to clean this lot up. Narky Blert ( talk) 00:12, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
More editors' attention would be appreciated at Talk:Bo#Material cited to Urban Dictionary, where there is a disagreement about what kind of material is appropriate for disambiguation pages. Thank you. — Granger ( talk · contribs) 11:18, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Someone else may want to help keep an article stub from being inserted into the lede for A Good Day to Die. -- JHunterJ ( talk) 17:54, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
Dead cat is just rife with partial title matches, which the current lvoters seem to be just fine with. Help! Clarityfiend ( talk) 19:21, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Proposal: keep two-item dab pages for a proposal that would essentially overturn wp:TWODABS guideline. -- do ncr am 22:17, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
More opinions are sought about a redirect and SIA Neo Tokyo it targets (was recently converted from a dab to an SIA) Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2016_September_24#Neo_Tokyo_.28disambiguation.29 . Widefox; talk 22:28, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
There's discussion about merging Lua language and Lua’ language at Talk:Lua’ language. Widefox; talk 11:57, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Just noticed some edits at Podesta, Podesta (disambiguation), Podestà, and Podestà (disambiguation) that seems to have resulted in a misnamed surname article and some redirects from "(disambiguation)" pages that aren't to disambiguation pages. I'm not ready to sort that out at the moment, but wanted to bring some attention to it. older ≠ wiser 12:41, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
It's the first time I've seen this type of issue, or at any rate the first time I've been confident enough to raise it.
A semi-professional footballer is WP:PRIMARY - seriously? I am minded to move Ben May to Ben May (footballer), and to turn Ben May into a {{ hndis}} page after shifting the info now in Ben May (disambiguation) into it, and then to turn Ben May (disambiguation) into an everyday redirect. Thoughts? Narky Blert ( talk) 01:05, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
I used to see three-letter-word dab pages to be like:
Boi or BOI may refer to:
But recently Uanfala ( talk · contribs) to split 'Dit' from 'DIT'. I failed to find a guideline to this end.
BTW, I see
Bob or B.O.B. may refer to:
Shouldn't it be
Bob, BOB or B.O.B. ... ?
Please comment. Staszek Lem ( talk) 17:38, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
I've just stumbled upon the following wording in
WP:DPAGE (emphasis mine):
Editorial judgement should be used in deciding whether to combine terms in the ways described above (except for differences in capitalization, which invariably share a disambiguation page)
Now, as it reads, it seems to command against the exercise of editorial judgement when it comes to capitalisation variants. That's odd, isn't it?
Uanfala (
talk) 12:36, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
except for differences in capitalization, which should normally/always share a disambiguation page
Terms which are commonly so combined include...
Terms which differ only in capitalization, punctuation and diacritic marks.(emphasis mine) The part in parentheses directly contradicts this. I agree that the parenthetical statement should just be removed, both for its contradiction and for unnecessarily muddying the statement about editorial discretion.
I've always kept them on one page, unless the page length gets too unwieldyand bd2412's
I generally combine the uppercase and lowercase unless there are too many to fit neatly on a single page.Uanfala ( talk) 21:10, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
There is an objective reason why capitalization is singled out: it is quite often the same term may be written in no-cap/all-cap/CamelCase/etc. Staszek Lem ( talk) 18:23, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Is there a policy regarding the use of Template:Ill when there are redlinks that have articles on other wikies Agathoclea ( talk) 15:27, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
A discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics#Classical compound might affect Barbarism (disambiguation) and Abuse of language (disambiguation). Therefore, some contributors to this project might be interested in that discussion. Cnilep ( talk) 03:08, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello, could someone please look at Joseph Heller (disambiguation)? I'm trying to avoid getting into an edit war, but editor is repeately adding entry which doesn't meet MOS:DABRL or MOS:DABMENTION and feels I have 'so much hatred towards people called Joseh Heller.' Thanks for any help, Boleyn ( talk) 20:37, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
I'n not sure if William Tunberg (artist) needs to be disambiguated. There are no other articles titled William Tunberg and I think the disambiguation was just added in error by an inexperienced editor who created the article. Is there some policy/guideline reason why the "(artist)" part is needed? I'm really not too familiar with this type of thing and not familiar at all with what happens when an article is un-disambiguated, so would be really grateful for any clarification that anyone can provide. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 14:13, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Marchjuly, thanks for your message. There are incoming links to William Tunberg for a notable screenwriter. I will make it a disambiguation page and resolve the links. Best wishes, Boleyn ( talk) 14:58, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Currently Reanalysis links to six articles, but only one of those six ( Folk etymology) says its topic is sometimes called "reanalysis". Meteorological reanalysis and ocean reanalysis each use the term, but they are partial name matches. Rebracketing and Back-formation are each a kind of folk etymology, so the ambiguity is not out of the question, but might not bear DAB treatment. Statistics doesn't mention reanalysis at all, but does talk about analysis.
In addition, Reanalysis (linguistics) currently links to the relevant section of the DAB page. Should this link to the DAB, or to folk etymology, since that's the only article that uses the term?
Is this DAB page necessary? It's not unimaginable that a reader might be looking for the partial-names or the subtypes, but it's not obvious that a DAB page is the way to go.
FYI, I started to rewrite the DAB page, but thought it would be better to get more opinions. My draft is in my sandbox, here. Cnilep ( talk) 03:02, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Is List of storms named Ada still of interest to this WikiProject? It was boldly moved from Cyclone Ada (disambiguation) but the WikiProject DAB template was left on the talk page. Should I remove the template?
This also has relevance to a rather long and involved RM at Talk:Hurricane Stan (disambiguation)#Requested move 22 October 2016 which may result in a similar move (but this time after much discussion). Andrewa ( talk) 01:28, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello WP Disambiguation members! I noticed that you make extensive use of RecentChangesLinked to produce your Project watchlist. Here's a couple Wishlist Survey proposals related to making watchlists like this more productive:
Please consider and vote on these by December 12. Thank you for your time! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:16, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
This redirect page is now discussed at RfD. I invite you to comment there. -- George Ho ( talk) 18:54, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
There are three redirects at RfD that you are welcome to comment on; please visit!
— Gorthian ( talk) 20:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
I invite you to the reopened ongoing RM discussion. -- George Ho ( talk) 08:11, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, is there in the eyes of the rest of you sufficient cause or not to maybe add names from various editions of the Marquis Who's Who and similar works to dab pages of names or would that maybe wind up getting excessive? John Carter ( talk) 17:26, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
I invite you to the ongoing RM discussion. -- George Ho ( talk) 03:38, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
This requested move may be of interest to project participants. — Gorthian ( talk) 18:49, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
Disambiguation experts might like to chime in at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Policy_regarding_.22see_also.22s_for_bands where an editor is unhappy with pages such as Lethargy, believing that the hatnote is a form of promotion for the band, and wants to change all our policies in this area to create 2-entry dab pages even where there is a primary topic! Pam D 09:58, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
I wouldn't normally mention a RM request here, but as no-one has yet responded to the RM above, I believe some input from neutral disambiguators would be helpful at the link above. -- NSH001 ( talk) 07:26, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
The RfD Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 January 13#Tylenol might be of interest to this project. Tylenol (a drug brand) currently redirects to Paracetamol (Tylenol's active ingredient), yet at the same time there is a stand-alone page about the brand: Tylenol (brand). -- HyperGaruda ( talk) 09:09, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
There's an editnotice on a dab at Template:Editnotices/Page/ATV that states "Attention editors! No red links. ..." . It is being discussed at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2017_January_12#Template:Editnotices.2FPage.2FATV. Widefox; talk 10:03, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Should these two be one?
Cheers, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:09, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
I see WP:DPAGE says it's okay. I'll move the plurals to the singular. Please revert and yell at me if that's not okay. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:15, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
I have tagged this page as a WP:DABCONCEPT. It primarily seems to be a list of storms described as superstorms, not a disambiguation page. bd2412 T 15:13, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
There is a (somewhat disorganized) RfC being held at Talk:Nissan_Caravan#RFC on disambiguation hatnotes for 'Caravan' named vehicles seeking to determine whether longstanding disambiguation hatnotes distinguishing Nissan Caravan and Dodge Caravan which were removed unilaterally by User:Mr.choppers in opposition to other editors prior to initiating an RfC should instead remain in place/be restored in some form. -- Kevjonesin ( talk) 20:44, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
I am utterly defeated by this tangle of articles:
I can't tell if that fact that I can't make heads or tails of these is my own ignorance or the failings of the articles. Probably a combination of both. I welcome any ideas about how to make these make sense. — Gorthian ( talk) 04:49, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
For anyone interested, additional eyes on this page would be appreciated. Editors are adding two links that redirect to the same target, which makes no mention that either term is known by the initials. older ≠ wiser 13:54, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
I started the discussion about handling pages related to hurricanes and tropical storms disambiguated by years: Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Pages about hurricanes and tropical storms. I invite you to the discussion. -- George Ho ( talk) 07:52, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
The redirect, Communist era, is currently under discussion, recently relisted. I invite you to the RFD talk. -- George Ho ( talk) 20:00, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Please take a look at Lead (disambiguation) and its talk page. Its not covered by MOS:DAB AFAICS. Christian75 ( talk) 07:29, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
The redirect, Democrat Party (United States), is relisted. I invite you to comment. -- George Ho ( talk) 01:48, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I've just created an article about a leaf beetle, Zygogramma suturalis, which shares a common name with a different species Ophraella communa. The common name 'Ragweed leaf beetle' currently redirect to the latter page. It needs a disambiguation, but such witchcraft is currently beyond my ken. Here's hoping the fine folks here will be able to resolve. Zakhx150 ( talk) 16:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
Input from this project would be useful at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 February 28#Robert Brown (botanist), particularly in relation to how WP:PRIMARYTOPIC applies in this case. Peter coxhead ( talk) 20:13, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
I could use some help in explaining why Treaty of London is not a disambiguation page. The discussion is at Talk:Treaty of London#This is not a dab page, with some early comments on my talk page. Thanks. — Gorthian ( talk) 19:04, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Recently Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruddy closed as "link to Wiktionary". The closing admin, User:Czar, implemented this by making Ruddy into a DAB with Wiktionary template and content merged from Ruddy (surname), as well as the names of several bird species.
The problem, as I see it, is that the non-surname content consists almost entirely of partial-name matches: mostly birds that are not, as far as I can see, called simply ruddies or the like. Would it make more sense to have the page contain only the content of the former surname page plus the Wiktionary template, maybe in a See also section?
I will invite WikiProject Color and WikiProject Birds to comment here, as someone from these three projects will no doubt have better ideas than I do. Cnilep ( talk) 02:08, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Comments from project members are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ancient tree. — Gorthian ( talk) 20:36, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
A row is developing, with accusations of edit-warring, mostly over whether it's necessary to include the abbreviation "(TNA)" alongside every entry, etc. See Talk:TNA#Reversionary_edits. Pam D 09:11, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi all. I'd like to invite you to participate in the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, about our movement's overall goals, "What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?". It's currently in the first stage, of broad discussion. There are further details in the related metawiki pages (FAQ, lists of other simultaneous communities' discussions, etc). (Also, if you're interested in helping facilitate and summarize the discussions here, and to bring back here the summaries of what the other communities are discussing, please let me know. Thanks. :) Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 00:50, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion ongoing about whether Donald Trump should be hatnoted as the "Incumbent President of the United States", or various other possibilities. Input would be welcome. Talk:Donald_Trump#Why_is_.22incumbent.22_necessary_in_the_hatnote.3F Siuenti ( talk) 18:13, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
There's discussion at Talk:Signalberg about adding a German translation to 1. the lede 2. a wikt link (or two, for a compound noun) . Widefox; talk 21:28, 31 March 2017 (UTC)