Template:Disambiguation/doc

Template page

This is the {{Disambiguation}} 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 fixes

This template will automatically detect incomplete disambiguation present in page titles. If the title includes anything other than (disambiguation) in parentheses, it is assumed to be the article type. For example, this template on the page 1st Division (France) would produce the text "This disambiguation page lists France articles associated with the title 1st Division". If the page title contains parentheses that are not used for disambiguation (such as Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)), set |ignore_parentheses=yes. If you wish to manually specify the article type, use the |type= parameter.

Variant templates

Disambiguation

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

More specific and alternative templates exist for disambiguation pages whose entries are limited exclusively to items of a particular type:

Template Category Notes
{{Airport disambiguation}} Category:Airport disambiguation pages for airports
{{Biology disambiguation}} Category:Biology disambiguation pages
{{Call sign disambiguation}} Category:Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages
{{Caselaw disambiguation}} Category:Case law disambiguation pages
{{Chinese title disambiguation}} Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles
{{Genus disambiguation}} Category:Genus disambiguation pages
{{Hangul title disambiguation}} Category:Disambiguation pages with Hangul titles
{{Human name disambiguation}}
 {{Human name disambiguation cleanup}}
Category:Human name disambiguation pages
{{Hospital disambiguation}} Category:Hospital disambiguation pages for hospitals or medical centers
{{Letter–number combination disambiguation}} Category:Letter–number combination disambiguation pages
{{Mathematical disambiguation}} Category:Mathematics disambiguation pages for mathematics titles
{{Military unit disambiguation}} Category:Military units and formations disambiguation pages
{{Number disambiguation}} Category:Lists of ambiguous numbers
{{Phonetics disambiguation}} Category:Linguistics disambiguation pages
{{Place name disambiguation}} Category:Place name disambiguation pages
{{Road disambiguation}} Category:Road disambiguation pages
{{School disambiguation}} Category:Educational institution disambiguation pages for educational institutions
{{Species Latin name disambiguation}} Category:Latin name disambiguation pages
{{Station disambiguation}} Category:Station disambiguation pages for railway and public transport stations
{{Synagogue disambiguation}} Category:Synagogue disambiguation pages for synagogues

Note: A set index article (SIA) is not a disambiguation page; it is a list article about a set of items of a specific type that also share the same (or similar) name. OODA WIKI:Set index articles includes templates for SIAs.

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 from this list if the disambiguation page has several items of that type:
{{Disambiguation|human name}}
 {{Disambiguation|hn=sortkey}}
for Category:Human name disambiguation pages
 for Category:Human name disambiguation pages with a specified sort key (e.g. {{Disambiguation|hn=Doe, John}})
{{Disambiguation|bird}} for Category:Bird common name disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|church}} for Category:Church building disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|county}}
 {{Disambiguation|uscounty}}
for Category:County name disambiguation pages
 for Category:United States county name disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|fish}} for Category:Fish common name disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|genus}} for Category:Genus disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|geo}} for Category:Place name disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|hospital}} for Category:Hospital disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|latin}} for Category:Latin name disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|letter number}} for Category:Letter–number combination disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|math}} for Category:Mathematics disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|number}} for Category:Lists of ambiguous numbers
{{Disambiguation|plant}} for Category:Plant common name disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|political}} for Category:Political party disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|road}} for Category:Road disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|school}} for Category:Educational institution disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|ship}} for Category:Ship disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|station}} for Category:Station disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|tndis}} for Category:Title and name disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|township}} for Category:Township name disambiguation pages

These can be added if there are one or more elements in the list (per their category descriptions):
{{Disambiguation|airport}} for Category:Airport disambiguation pages
{{Disambiguation|callsign}} for Category:Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages

These can be added even if there's only one element in the list, since these types are not actually ambiguous:
{{Disambiguation|given name}} for Category:Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists
{{Disambiguation|surname}} for Category:Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists

This parameter reflects the title, not the contents:
{{Disambiguation|chinese}} for Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles

And this parameter reflects a maintenance need, not the contents:
{{Disambiguation|split}} for Category:Disambiguation pages in need of being split

Note that {{Disambiguation}} might not have parameters for all subcategories of Category:Disambiguation pages; the category may have to be manually added to the disambiguation page.

Nocat

If categorization is not needed on pages that are not in mainspace, then the "nocat" parameter may be set equal to "true" or "yes" as follows:

Redirects

The following redirect to this template:

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".

Other templates and modules used:

Template use

Place template at the foot of the disambiguation page after all of the disambiguation content but before any categories (see below) (interlanguage links to Wikidata), as per the WP:DCAT guideline.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template in articles based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Disambiguation

Place at the bottom of Disambiguation pages.

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
First category key1

Used to put the page in a category. Can be one of 'split' (dab pages in need of being split); 'clean up','clean-up','cleanup' (dabs in need of cleanup); 'airports','airport' (airport dabs); 'call sign','call signs','broadcast call sign','broadcast call signs','callsign' (broadcast call sign dabs); 'chinese char','chinese-char','chinesechar','chinese character','chinese' (chinese character dabs); 'churches','church building','church buildings','church' (church building dabs), 'fish' (fish dabs); 'geodis','geography','geographical','place name','place names','place','places','geo' (Place names); 'county'; 'uscounty' (United States county dabs); 'township' (Township name dabs); 'name','names','human name','human names','hn','hndis' (Human name dabs); 'surnames','surname' (surname dabs); 'given names','given name' (given-name dabs), 'hospital name','hospital names','hospitals','hospital' (hospital dabs); 'latin name','latin names','latin' (Latin name dabs); 'letter-number','letter number' (Letter-number combination dabs); 'mathdab','maths','mathematics','mathematical','math' (mathematical dabs); 'numberdis','numbers','ambiguous number','ambiguous numbers','number' (Lists of ambiguous numbers), 'plants','plant' (Plant common name dabs); 'roaddis','roads','road' (road dabs), 'schooldis','schools','educational institution','educational institutions','college','colleges','university','universities','school' (Educational institution dabs); 'political','party' (political party dabs), 'genus' (Genus dabs)

Suggested values
split clean up airports call sign chinese char churches fish places uscounty township name surnames given names hospital names latin name letter-number mathematics ambiguous number plants roads schools political genus
Stringsuggested
Second category key2

Further category keys, as parameter 1.

Suggested values
split clean up airports call sign chinese char churches fish places uscounty township name surnames given names hospital names latin name letter-number mathematics ambiguous number plants roads schools political genus
Stringoptional
Third category key3

Further category keys, as parameter 1.

Suggested values
split clean up airports call sign chinese char churches fish places uscounty township name surnames given names hospital names latin name letter-number mathematics ambiguous number plants roads schools political genus
Stringoptional
Fourth category key4

Further category keys, as parameter 1.

Suggested values
split clean up airports call sign chinese char churches fish places uscounty township name surnames given names hospital names latin name letter-number mathematics ambiguous number plants roads schools political genus
Stringoptional
Fifth category key5

Further category keys, as parameter 1.

Suggested values
split clean up airports call sign chinese char churches fish places uscounty township name surnames given names hospital names latin name letter-number mathematics ambiguous number plants roads schools political genus
Stringoptional
Sixth category key6

Further category keys, as parameter 1.

Suggested values
split clean up airports call sign chinese char churches fish places uscounty township name surnames given names hospital names latin name letter-number mathematics ambiguous number plants roads schools political genus
Stringoptional
Seventh category key7

Further category keys, as parameter 1.

Suggested values
split clean up airports call sign chinese char churches fish places uscounty township name surnames given names hospital names latin name letter-number mathematics ambiguous number plants roads schools political genus
Stringoptional
Eighth category key8

Further category keys, as parameter 1.

Suggested values
split clean up airports call sign chinese char churches fish places uscounty township name surnames given names hospital names latin name letter-number mathematics ambiguous number plants roads schools political genus
Stringoptional
Ninth category key9

Further category keys, as parameter 1.

Suggested values
split clean up airports call sign chinese char churches fish places uscounty township name surnames given names hospital names latin name letter-number mathematics ambiguous number plants roads schools political genus
Stringoptional
Tenth category key10

Further category keys, as parameter 1.

Suggested values
split clean up airports call sign chinese char churches fish places uscounty township name surnames given names hospital names latin name letter-number mathematics ambiguous number plants roads schools political genus
Stringoptional
Human namehn

Human name disambiguation page with its own sort key.

Stringoptional
page-titlepage-title

Page title to use, only useful for special cases when default does not work.

Default
(FULLPAGENAME)
Stringoptional
nocatnocat

Set to 'yes' to prevent categorisation.

Stringoptional
demospacedemospace

Used for testing.

Stringoptional
ignore_parenthesesignore_parentheses

Set to 'yes' to prevent parentheses in the article title from being parsed as incomplete disambiguation.

Stringoptional
typetype

Manually specify the article type in the descriptive text ('This disambiguation page lists {{{type}}} articles...')

Stringoptional

See also