Template:Disambiguation

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This is the {{Disambiguation}} template.

Important: Please do not subst: this 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 terms between games, such as Executable. This template automatically adds articles to the Category:Disambiguation pages.

Parameters

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}}
• {{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, such as "hospital" and "school".

Template use

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

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Disambiguation

Place at the bottom of Disambiguation pages.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	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); '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)	String	optional
2	2	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
3	3	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
4	4	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
5	5	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
6	6	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
7	7	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
8	8	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
9	9	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	String	optional
10	10	Further category keys, as parameter 1.	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

• Wikipedia:Hatnote
• {{Disambiguation needed}} – Adds an inline "disambiguation needed" tag to an ambiguous link within an article, see Wikipedia:OTHERUSES for more.
• {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} – for disambig talkpages
• {{Other uses}} – for linking to disambiguation pages in articles

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Disambiguation/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

This template uses material from the Wikipedia template Template:Disambiguation, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (view authors).