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‎How to use Disambiguations

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Disambiguations are used when multiple articles needs to be called the same name, but share no content, or needs to be separated.

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 These disambiguation pages are basically just a list of articles on a page, but they should be made similarly, and this is how you make one:
 '''Topic''', '''alternate name''' and a potential '''tertiary name''' may refer to any of the following:
-* <nowiki>[[Link]]<nowiki>, explanatory text
+* <nowiki>[[Link]]</nowiki>, explanatory text
-* <nowiki>[[Another Link]]<nowiki>, explanatory text
+* <nowiki>[[Another Link]]</nowiki>, explanatory text
-* <nowiki>[[Link (with explanation)]]<nowiki>, explanatory text
+* <nowiki>[[Link (with explanation)]]</nowiki>, explanatory text
 * Etc.
 <nowiki>[[Category:Disambiguations]]</nowiki>
 Disambiguation "list" pages should be added to this category: [[:Category:Disambiguations]].

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 Disambiguation "list" pages should be added to this category: [[:Category:Disambiguations]].
 =={{WikiTitle}} Disambiguation Formatting==
-{{WikiTitle}} uses the same formatting as Wikipedia when dealing with disambiguations. The new page names from a disambiguation are named like this: [[Article name (clarification)]], if it's not possible to name them any other way. Check our [[{{WikiTitle}}:Policy|title naming policies]] for further help with how to make disambiguation titles. [[Help:Article|Articles]] or [[Help:Category|categories]] work in the same way.
+{{WikiTitle}} uses the same formatting as Wikipedia when dealing with disambiguations. The new page names from a disambiguation are named like this: <nowiki>[[Article name (clarification)]]</nowiki>, if it's not possible to name them any other way. Check our [[{{WikiTitle}}:Policy|title naming policies]] for further help with how to make disambiguation titles. [[Help:Article|Articles]] or [[Help:Category|categories]] work in the same way.

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 '''Topic''', '''alternate name''' and a potential '''tertiary name''' may refer to any of the following:
-* [[Link]], explanatory text
+* <nowiki>[[Link]]<nowiki>, explanatory text
-* [[Another Link]], explanatory text
+* <nowiki>[[Another Link]]<nowiki>, explanatory text
-* [[Link (with explanation)]], explanatory text
+* <nowiki>[[Link (with explanation)]]<nowiki>, explanatory text
 * Etc.
 <nowiki>[[Category:Disambiguations]]</nowiki>
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-==When to Not Use Disambiguations==
+==When to Use Disambiguations==
-Try to avoid using disambiguation changes to names as much as possible. There are no great problems with adding disambiguation list pages for acronyms though.
+Try to avoid using disambiguation changes to names as much as possible. There are no great problems with adding disambiguation list pages for acronyms, however.

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 ==How to use Disambiguations==
-In the cases of multiple identical article names, a small differentiation is needed between the different pages, and a disambiguation page is put in place of the original article. If it's a very small number of conflicting articles, then it's possible to just use the title for the more prominent one, and then linking the less important page at the top of the prominent one.
+In the cases of multiple identical article names, a small differentiation is needed between the different pages, and a ''disambiguation page'' is put in place of the original article. If it's a very small number of conflicting articles, then it's possible to just use the title for the more prominent one, and then linking the less important page at the top of the prominent one.
 When the disambiguation is an acronym, then it's most often best to just use the full name as article names instead of any more "advanced" changes.
 Disambiguation "list" pages should be added to this category: [[:Category:Disambiguations]].
 =={{WikiTitle}} Disambiguation Formatting==

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−	Disambiguations are used when multiple articles needs to be called the same name, but share no content, or needs to be separated.	+	'''Disambiguations''' are used when multiple articles needs to be called the same name, but share no content, or needs to be separated. It's when a slight name change is used to keep them apart.
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		+	==What is a Disambiguation?==
		+	Disambiguation is a long and strange word that you are unlikely to use in any other context than for wiki editing. It is the wiki verb for removing potentially ambiguous articles with multiple contents that are not related, but share the same name. An example is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APM APM] in Wikipedia, where "APM" can mean a host of different things, and they would not fit on the same article page. This is of course a much smaller problem in {{WikiTitle}} than on Wikipedia.
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		+	==How to use Disambiguations==
		+	In the cases of multiple identical article names, a small differentiation is needed between the different pages, and a disambiguation page is put in place of the original article. If it's a very small number of conflicting articles, then it's possible to just use the title for the more prominent one, and then linking the less important page at the top of the prominent one.
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		+	When the disambiguation is an acronym, then it's most often best to just use the full name as article names instead of any more "advanced" changes.
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		+	Disambiguation "list" pages should be added to this category: [[:Category:Disambiguations]].
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		+	=={{WikiTitle}} Disambiguation Formatting==
		+	{{WikiTitle}} uses the same formatting as Wikipedia when dealing with disambiguations. The new page names from a disambiguation are named like this: [[Article name (clarification)]], if it's not possible to name them any other way. Check our [[{{WikiTitle}}:Policy\|title naming policies]] for further help with how to make disambiguation titles. [[Help:Article\|Articles]] or [[Help:Category\|categories]] work in the same way.
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		+	==When to Not Use Disambiguations==
		+	Try to avoid using disambiguation changes to names as much as possible. There are no great problems with adding disambiguation list pages for acronyms though.
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