JorjaPedia:Disambiguation
Disambiguation is the process of resolving ambiguity -- meaning the conflicts that occur when articles about two or more different topics have the same "natural" title. In other words, disambiguations are types of turnpikes that lead to different meanings of a related word.
For example, over the course of many years, it's possible that not only will Jorja Fox be on the same television talk shows more than once, but she will also play characters with the same name.
Two different methods of disambiguating are discussed here: disambiguation links and disambiguation pages. In the first case, an article discussing one particular meaning of a term has a link at the top (or, rarely, at the bottom) pointing the user to another page with a similar title. A disambiguation page contains no article content, only links to other pages.
Disambiguation Links
On the header to The Late Late Show (2001), one might have a link to point to her other apperances:
For the previous year, see The Late Late Show (2002).
If there is more than one such alternative page, create a link to a disambiguation page.
Disambiguation Pages
These have links only, like this:
Blah may mean:
A disambiguation page may have a name like Blah (disambiguation) or may be named after the general term Blah
Style for disambiguation pages is, in brief, as follows:
- Put the article title in bold as an intro.
- Start each line with the link to the target page.
- Only include references to related subject articles if the term in question actually is described on that page.
- Include the template {{disambig}} at the bottom.
Additional Note
You don't have to link to the disambiguation pages if you don't want to. We have no policy on that as of yet.
