Template:Disambiguation/doc

For the inline tag, see Template:Disambiguation needed.

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. This template automatically adds articles to the Category:Disambiguation.

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. If you wish to manually specify the article type, use the |type= parameter.

Variant templates

Disambiguation

See also: Category:Disambiguation message boxes

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

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.

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:

• {{Disambiguation|nocat=true}}
• {{Disambiguation|nocat=yes}}

Redirects

The following redirect to this template:

• {{Disambig}}
• {{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.

Other templates and modules used:

• {{Template other}}
• {{Title disambig text}}
• {{PAGENAMEBASE}}
• {{Trim}}
• {{Str rep}}
• {{#invoke:Redirect|isRedirect}}

Template use

Place template at the foot of the disambiguation page after all of the disambiguation content but before any categories.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools.

TemplateData for Disambiguation

Place at the bottom of Disambiguation pages.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
First category key	1	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)	String	suggested
Second category key	2	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
Third category key	3	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
Fourth category key	4	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
Fifth category key	5	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
Sixth category key	6	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
Seventh category key	7	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
Eighth category key	8	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
Ninth category key	9	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
Tenth category key	10	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
Human name	hn	Human name disambiguation page with its own sort key.	String	optional
page-title	page-title	Page title to use, only useful for special cases when default does not work. Default (FULLPAGENAME)	String	optional
nocat	nocat	Set to 'yes' to prevent categorisation.	String	optional
demospace	demospace	Used for testing.	String	optional
ignore_parentheses	ignore_parentheses	Set to 'yes' to prevent parentheses in the article title from being parsed as incomplete disambiguation.	String	optional
type	type	Manually specify the article type in the descriptive text ('This disambiguation page lists {{{type}}} articles...')	String	optional

See also

• BattleTechWiki:Hatnote
• {{Disambiguation needed}} – Adds an inline "disambiguation needed" tag to an ambiguous link within an article.
• {{Redirect}} – for linking to disambiguation pages in an article that is the primary topic of a redirect
• {{Other uses}} – for linking to disambiguation pages in articles