User:Hutcher/WP DAB

I'm a reforming poor DAB editor so please leave a note on my talk page if you have a different interpretation of WP:DAB or MOS:DAB than I do. My goal is to follow both of them to the letter and the spirit of the law. Here are my Coles notes.

Overview

"Disambiguation pages are solely intended to allow the user to choose from a list of ... articles" [[MOS:DAB]]

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{{Wiktionary}} – {{wiktionary|WORD|WORD2|...|WORD5}}
Primary Topics?
- Yes, one DAB entry is obviously primary as per [[WP:PRIME]]
  - eg: A school is an institution for learning.
  - Non-primary topics
    - School may also refer to:
- No, Introductory line [[MOS:DABINT]]
  - eg: Angus McKay, MacKay or Mackay may refer to:
TOC?
- Big guys: {{TOCright}}, "should be placed after the lead section of the wiki markup and immediately before the first section heading" [[MOS:DABORDER]]
- Little guys: __NOTOC__

Individual Entries

Basics? Bullet, link, cap 1st letter, no commas etc., no bold
"Entries should nearly always be sentence fragments, with no final punctuation (commas, full stops, semicolons, etc.)." [[MOS:DABENTRY]]
Redirect? "should be used to link to a specific section ... if the title ... synonymous with ... topic" [[MOS:DAB#Introductory_line]]
- "when the link is the subject ... For description sections, consider piping"
- "redirects should not be used in disambiguation pages ... (except when) used to link to a specific section of an article" [[WP:Piping]]
Piped links? No ... but ...
- Piped links allowed for WP:ITALICS, quoting, special chars [[MOS:DAB#Introductory_line]]
- Piped links allowed "when the link is in the description" [[MOS:DAB#Introductory_line]]
- Piped links allowed for "linking to a specific section of an article" [[MOS:DAB#Introductory_line]]
Description? "kept to a minimum" [[MOS:DAB#Introductory_line]]
Links? "exactly one navigable (blue) link" [[MOS:DAB#Introductory_line]]
External links or references? No [[MOS:DAB#Introductory_line]]
Create entry or not?
- No "Partial title matches" [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Lists]]
- "Only include articles whose subject might reasonably be called by the ambiguous title" [[MOS:DAB#Organization]]
- Entry permitted "if the subject is commonly referred to simply by Title" [[MOS:DAB#Introductory_line]]
- "people should be listed ... only if they are reasonably well-known by it"[[WP:PTM]]
Entry types
- Foreign: "Avoid adding lines for words or phrases that are simply spelled the same as an English term"
- People
  - "Include their birth and death years ... only enough descriptive information that the reader can distinguish" [[MOS:DABNAME#Specific_entry_types]] [[MOS:DOB]]
  - "Do not include a, an or the before the description of the person's occupation or role" [[MOS:DABNAME#Specific_entry_types]]
- Places: "it may only be necessary to write the name" [[MOS:DABNAME#Specific_entry_types]]
- Red links: "Do not create red links to articles that are unlikely ever to be written" MOS:DABRL
- Synonyms: "If the link is to a synonym, simply use it as it is named" MOS:DABSY
- "If a topic does not have an article of its own ... link to that article", eg: Tail: The luminous matter anti-sunwards from a comet
Order of entries: [[MOS:DABORDER]]
- Primary, sections, clarifier in brackets, clarifier following comma, item in name, "See also", alpha/chronological sort MOS:DAB#Organization
- See also: synonyms, broader-subject MOS:DAB#Organization
- Long lists: "In science:"
- Long-long lists or multi-level: ==Science==
- Two entries? Wikipedia:Hatnote WP:2DAB

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Specific class?
- Yes, use {{roaddis}} for highways, {{geodis}} for locations, {{hndis}} for human names
- No, {{disambig}} or {{disambig-cleanup}}
Add {{R to section}} "When creating a redirect to section"

HatNotes linking to DABs

Hatnotes "provide links to other similarly named articles or disambiguation pages." [[WP:HN]]

"Either of these two styles is acceptable" [[WP:HN]]

This article is about the insect-produced fluid. For other uses of the term, see Honey (disambiguation).

For other uses of the term, see Honey (disambiguation).

"one is disambiguated and the other not" [[WP:HN]]

{{about|the village in England|H. P. Lovecraft's fictional town|Dunwich (Lovecraft)}}.

This article is about the village in England. For H. P. Lovecraft's fictional town, see Dunwich (Lovecraft).

Dunwich (pronounced Dun-Itch) is a town in the county of Suffolk in England, the remnant of what was once a prosperous seaport and centre of the wool trade during the early middle ages, with a natural harbour formed by the mouths of the River Blyth...

"primary meaning and two or more additional meanings" [[WP:HN]]

{{about|the mazelike labyrinth from Greek mythology}}

This article is about the mazelike labyrinth from Greek mythology. For other uses, see Labyrinth (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an elaborate maze-like structure constructed for King Minos of Crete and designed by the legendary artificer Daedalus to hold the Minotaur...

"term that redirects to an unambiguously named article" [[WP:HN]]

{{redirect}}

Johann Sebastian Bach

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"Bach" redirects here. For other uses, see Bach (disambiguation).

Johann Sebastian Bach (IPA: [joˈhan/ˈjoːhan zeˈbastjan ˈbax]) (March 21, 1685 O.S. – July 28, 1750 N.S.) was ...

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