Wikipedia talk:Special:DisambiguationPageLinks

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Mostly useless

The report at Special:Disambiguations is mostly useless. Use Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links or Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance instead. Ewlyahoocom 08:17, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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A page is treated as dismbiguation

*disambiguation
--Jshadias 01:17, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

How the heck do you remove articles from the disambiguation page once they've been fixed? I can't do a ~~strike~~ because there is not an edit link on the Disambiguation pages article nor on Template:Disambig.--OGRastamon 23:55, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dont it do it automatically like with double redirects?

Reedy Boy 08:01, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hiding redirects

Is there any way a feature could be added that would allow the hiding of redirects linking to disambiguation pages? This would help greatly when trying to fix article links going to disambiguation pages. Mike5904 02:48, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Refresh?

Could someone please refresh this list? Ewlyahoocom 04:38, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the database query appears to be limited to the first 1000 entries. Is that correct? I can't figure out the sort order on this list but maybe it's still in the A's (or the B's).

 ...
 999. Ryan Gray (Edit) => America
1000. California 1 (Edit) => America

Oh, on a side note right now I'm editing this page at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Special:Disambiguations

the "project page" tab/link up at the top links to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Special:Disambiguations

which redirects to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Deadendpages

but I got here from the page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Disambiguations

Ewlyahoocom 18:27, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore User talk?

OK, maybe an argument could be made for keeping Talk: in this report, maybe even User:, but User talk: is just useless here, isn't it?

74. User talk:ClaudineChionh (Edit) => Augustine

Ewlyahoocom 08:26, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect

Wikipedia:Special:Disambiguations should redirect to Special:Disambiguations, not Special:Deadendpages. Since redirects to special pages don't actually work, you might as well use {{softredirect|Special:Disambiguations}} instead. Thanks – Gurch 10:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. By the way, I like the name you use for the editprotected template! --ais523 11:23, 8 May 2007 (U T C)

Special Situations: References Section In Disambiguation Pages?

I recently came across an odd situation: in most cases, a disambiguation page links to other pages, therefore verifying / citing the infromation on the disambiguation page itself. So, if you can't link to a page about the information you put on the disambiguation page, do you put a references section on the bottom of the disambiguation page. If you're confused, here's my case: There is a lesser known but notable (was praised by various magazines as the best grunge band to come out of Orange County) band, Smile. But, the page Smile(band) is about the 60's band, not the aforementioned, which is a 90's grunge band. I couldn't find information on wether or not to include references sections in disambiguations pages, there is nothing on this in Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), or its discussion section, I might put it in there, but I don't want to leave 3 blunders everywhere (1. Adding the reference and references section to the disambiguation page, 2. Adding this question here 3. Adding the question twice over there.) The disambiguation page in question is Smile (disambiguation). Nnnudibranch (talk) 03:14, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lists

Lists are not disambiguations, but many many are included in this special page as disambiguations--Kiyarrlls-talk 18:16, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Timezone

The following information is cached, and was last updated 15:31, 16 June 2009.

OK, but say what timezone. Jidanni (talk) 06:45, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore templates that redirect to disambiguation pages.

Many of the pages listed the list are there because of templates that are put at the top of the articles that show up with:

In my opinion, these are valid uses for linking to the disambiguation pages. If they can not be ignored, can they at least be filtered, or be considered lower priority on the list. Nutster (talk) 13:25, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Soon to be replaced by Special:DisambiguationPageLinks

Special:Disambiguations will soon be replaced by Special:DisambiguationPageLinks. They are essentially the same thing, but with changes behind the scenes. See Extension:Disambiguator for more info. Kaldari (talk) 01:08, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 3 March 2017

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:23, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Special:Disambiguations → Wikipedia:Special:DisambiguationPageLinks – Special:Disambiguations was replaced by Special:DisambiguationPageLinks. The page is fully protected as well as move protected, so an update of the redirect target to Special:DisambiguationPageLinks is due as well. — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 00:46, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:10, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Godsy: Page Wikipedia:Special:Disambiguations has no edits except a few redirects. Trying to move a page to a name starting with "Special:" caused odd remarks, so I reverted my move. What needs to be done? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:10, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- @Anthony Appleyard: Wikipedia:Special:Disambiguations exists to accompany Wikipedia talk:Special:Disambiguations. I can't view the move interface due to the page protection. I can take a look at it, or even implement the move myself, if you temporarily (or permanently, up to you; the protection is old, dating back to 2005) remove the page protection. — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 11:38, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Godsy: Please, what page do you want me to move to where? Wikipedia:Special:Disambiguations has no edits except a few redirects. Do you want me to move Wikipedia talk:Special:Disambiguations to Wikipedia talk:Special:DisambiguationPageLinks, or what? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:10, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- @Anthony Appleyard: Yes, Wikipedia talk:Special:Disambiguations to Wikipedia talk:Special:DisambiguationPageLinks. Then Wikipedia:Special:Disambiguations should be hard redirected to Wikipedia:Special:DisambiguationPageLinks, and a {{soft redirect}} redirect to Special:DisambiguationPageLinks should be placed on Wikipedia:Special:DisambiguationPageLinks. Sorry for any confusion. Best Regards, — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 13:06, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Godsy: Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:24, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.