Template:Disambiguation

Template documentation

This is the {{Disambiguation}} template.

Important: Please do not subst: this template.

This is a general-purpose template, to be placed at the bottom of any article that exists to help readers find other articles with the same or similar names. This concept is called disambiguation and is used with many common words, such as cross, life and work. This template automatically adds articles to the Category:Disambiguation pages.

Page title fix

In the event that the page title is causing an error, such as what happened at ***, add the parameter: |page-title = page title . Thus, the *** page would use the syntax: {{Disambiguation|page-title = ***}} .

Variant templates

Disambiguation

See also Category: Disambiguation message boxes.

For disambiguation pages requiring cleanup, use {{Disambiguation cleanup}}.

More Wikipedia-based specific and alternative templates do exist, for disambiguation pages or set index articles whose entries are limited exclusively to items of a particular type:

• {{Airport disambig}} for airports – Category:Airport disambiguation
• {{Callsigndis}} – Category:Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages
• {{Disambig-Chinese-char-title}} – Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles
• {{Geodis}} for place names – Category:Place name disambiguation pages
• {{Hndis}} for people's names – Category:Human name disambiguation pages
  • {{Hndis-cleanup}}
• {{Hospital disambiguation}} for hospitals or medical centers – Category:Hospital disambiguation pages
• {{Letter disambig}} – adds a Latin letter navbox, does not auto-categorize
• {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig}} – Category:Letter-number combination disambiguation pages
• {{Mathdab}} for mathematics titles – Category:Mathematical disambiguation
• {{MolFormDisambig}} – Category:Molecular formula disambiguation pages
• {{Numberdis}} for numbers – Category:Lists of ambiguous numbers
• {{Schooldis}} for educational institutions – Category:Educational institution disambiguation
• {{Species Latin name disambiguation}} – Category:Latin name disambiguation pages
• {{Wikipedia disambiguation}} for ambiguous titles and shortcuts in the Wikipedia namespace – Category:Wikipedia project disambiguation pages

Set index

See also Category: Set index article templates.

Examples of Wikipedia-based set index articles:

• {{SIA}} for any set index article – :Category:Set indices
• {{Mountainindex}} for mountain names – Category:Set indices on mountains
• {{Roadindex}} for roads, streets, or highways – Category:Lists of roads sharing the same title
• {{Shipindex}} for ship names – Category:Set indices on ships
• {{Sportindex}} for sport names – Category:Set indices on sports
• {{Surname}} for people's surnames – Category:Surnames
• {{Given name}} for people's given names – Category:Given names

Parameters

Sometimes there isn't a specific disambiguation template (see list above) that fits for a page, or the page has items in more than one of the above classes. Then use {{Disambiguation}} but with one or more parameters telling which categories to use. Up to ten parameters can be fed, and in any order, for example:

{{disambiguation|school|hospital}}

Only add a parameter if the disambiguation page has several items of that type. One LIMSwiki example:

• {{Disambiguation|ELN}}: for ELN

Note that {{Disambiguation}} might not have parameters for all subcategories of Category:Disambiguation pages, then you have to manually add the category to the disambig page.

Redirects

The following redirect to this template:

• {{Disambig}}
• {{Dab}}
• {{DAB}}
• {{Disamb}}

Technical details

Internally, this template uses {{Dmbox}}. That template categorises pages into Category:All disambiguation pages and Category:All article disambiguation pages.

This template also uses {{Disambiguation/cat}} to handle the categorisation parameters, such as "hospital" and "school".

See also

• {{Dablink}} – Basic article hatnote, see Wikipedia:HATTEST for the full hatnote index.
• {{Dn}} – Adds an inline "disambiguation needed" tag to an ambiguous link within an article, see Wikipedia:OTHERUSES for more.