Template:Disambiguation/doc

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 words, such as stress, life and cross. This template automatically adds articles to the Category:Disambiguation pages.

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. For example, this template on the page 1st Division (France) would produce the text "This disambiguation page lists France articles associated with the title 1st Division". If the page titles contains parentheses that are not used for disambiguation, set yes.

Disambiguation
Note: A set index article (SIA) is not a disambiguation page; it is a list article about a set of items of a specific type that also share the same (or similar) name.

Parameters
And This parameter reflects a maintenance need, not the contents:


 * : for Disambiguation pages in need of being split

Note that Disambiguation might not have parameters for all subcategories of Category:Disambiguation pages, then you have to manually add the category to the disambig page.

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:

Redirects
The following redirect to this template:


 * Disambig

Technical details
Internally, this template uses Dmbox. That template categorises pages into Category:Disambiguation pages.

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.