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Disambiguation pages exist to clarify confusion where two or more similarly named articles exist – for example, if two famous people have the same name. Ideally, Wikipedia articles should not link to disambiguation pages (with rare exceptions where the ambiguity of a term is being discussed); instead links should go directly to the appropriate article.

This page lists disambiguation pages that do have incoming links. Most of these need to be fixed.

1 How to help
2 Status and list parameters
3 Current disambiguation collaboration
4 Other pages currently in need of attention
5 Tools

[edit] How to help

Pick a disambiguation page to fix from the list below. (An updated version is at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Current list, but as the latter is generated automatically, comments should not be added to it.)
Visit the target disambiguation page.
Click on the What links here link in the "toolbox" on the left-hand side of the page if you are using the default monobook skin.
For each of the pages you see there, visit that page and change the link that goes to the disambiguation page to a link to one of the articles listed on the disambiguation page. The most important thing is to fix articles in the main namespace. "User:" and "Wikipedia:" administrative pages do not necessarily need to be fixed, and editing other people's comments on "Talk:" pages without their permission is characterised as unacceptable by the Talk page guidelines. It's okay for redirects to point to a disambiguation page, but articles pointing to these redirects need to be fixed.
Please remember: it is more important to disambiguate correctly than to disambiguate quickly. Make sure you make the best choice; if you're not sure, leave a note on the talk page and let someone who is more knowledgeable fix it.
Occasionally, links can simply be removed. A term should usually not be linked more than once in one article or section. Also, when the link refers to a general meaning of the word, for which there is no relevant article, removing may be the most sensible option. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links). Take care not to remove useful links, though.
If you fix all the main namespace links to that disambiguation page, please move it to the Done section.
In order to help people find this project, consider using an edit summary like the following: Repairing link to disambiguation page - [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|You can help!]]
Some pages have topics which gather links quickly, and so need to be monitored on an ongoing basis. Also, you may have either special knowledge or a special affection for the topic of a particular disambiguation page. For these reasons or any reason, consider adopting a page.

Sometimes, if all or most of the links refer to one meaning of the article name, it may make more sense to redirect the disambiguation page to that article, and perhaps set up a disambiguation block. See Wikipedia:Disambiguation for more details.

It may help to visit the disambiguation page but not the pages it links to, or clear your browser's cache after visiting them. That way, links to the disambiguation page will show up in a different colour (as visited links) and therefore be easier to pick out. Once you become comfortable with the disambiguation process, you may wish to read the Guide to Efficient Disambiguation.

{{Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Userbox}} can be placed on your userpage to show that you fix ambiguous links. Using this box adds you to Category:Wikipedians who help fix disambiguation pages with links.

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[edit] Status and list parameters

The list below shows disambiguation pages in the main English article namespace to which there are the most links. For the purposes of this report, a disambiguation page is considered to be any article using one of the many disambiguation templates. Multiple links from a single article are counted only once. Only links from the main article namespace are counted (that is, pages with "Talk:", "User:", "Wikipedia:" and most other namespace prefixes are ignored).

It was generated from the database dump dated 2006-09-06.

Information on generating the report can be found at /Report.

Previous lists now exist at /2005-10-20 dump, /2005-12-13 dump, /2006-03-26 dump, /2006-05-18 dump, /2006-07-17 dump.

[edit] Current disambiguation collaboration

The current collaboration project is Production. Please try to fix a few!--Russ (talk) 11:44, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Other pages currently in need of attention

See Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance for lists of disambiguation pages needing to be monitored for new links; and:

/from templates, dump: 2006-03-03, status: active
/from portals, dump: November 13, 2005, status: active
/from categories, dump: 2006-03-03, status: active
Special:Disambiguations, a special page listing links to dabs

Specific dabs (more at Maintenance):

<50 links — Palmyra, New York — requires disambiguation between "town" and "village" that are geographically contiguous; therefore best handled by someone with specific local knowledge. Courtland 00:01, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

This week's featured "problem" pages at Maintenance: Template:/problems These pages have shown either a large one-week jump in links, or a steady increase over four weeks that has not been addressed.