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This page describes one of Xenopedia's policies and guidelines. All users are expected to follow policy, except where it would damage the wiki. If you have any questions, suggestions, or complaints, please post them on the talk page. |
Disambiguation refers to the act of differentiating between multiple uses of the same name, term or phrase.
For example, the name "Dillon" refers to both Al Dillon and Leonard Dillon. This policy describes how disambiguation should be handled within Xenopedia. In the policy descriptions below, the word "term" is used for simplicity, but names, ambiguous phrases or abbreviations would be handled the same way.
Page Naming
When a given term has one primary use that is substantially more common, popular, or important than other secondary uses, the article for the primary use should be titled with the term. Articles for secondary uses would then be titled with variations to designate the difference. For example, the film Alien Resurrection is much more significant to the franchise than the video game Alien Resurrection. The article titled "Alien Resurrection" therefore covers the theatrical film, while the video game is covered in the article titled "Alien Resurrection (video game)".
If there is no single use of the term that could be considered primary, all articles related to the term would use variations to designate the differences, and the term itself would direct users to a disambiguation page.
Disambiguation Page vs. Links
A disambiguation page should be created in the following circumstances.
- If, based on the rules under the "Page Naming" section above, there is not a primary use for the term. The term would then be used as the title of the disambiguation page.
- If there is a primary use for the term, but multiple secondary uses. The disambiguation page would then be titled with the term followed by "(disambiguation)".
A disambiguation page should not be created if there is a primary use for the term and only one secondary use. In this case, the {{Disambiglink}} template should be used at the top of the primary page.
Disambiguation Page Format
A disambiguation page should always start with the {{Disambig}} template, followed by a list of the relevant links.