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Many new links to Wikipedia disambiguation pages are created every day. Many Wikipedians actively participate in the Disambiguation link repair project, tirelessy repairing these links. After a dab page has been cleaned of links from the main namespace, however, it is sometimes assumed that the problem has been resolved. Unfortunately, links accumulate like mushrooms when a dab page is left unattended. The problem is left for someone else to resolve at a later date, creating needless reduplication of time and effort.

An efficient means of resolving this problem is adopting a disambiguation page. This captures efficiencies, since Wikipedians build up a certain level of understanding of a given topic after a number of fixes, and thus are equipped to handle that page well.

Adoption is not ownership. You can tag-team adopt a really troublesome page, or merely help with the 'shroom cleanup on someone else's adopted page.


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[edit] How to help

  • Be bold. Adopt a page. Add your name onto a page that has already adopted, for tag-team mushroom eradication.

[edit] Adopted Pages

Feel free to add yourself and your adopted disambiguation pages in the table below. There are guidelines for disambiguation link repair on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links.


Disambiguation page adopted User Name Notes
Adventures of Superman Nehrams2020 No links as of December 12, 2006
American Oatmeal batman last edit: December 8, 2006
British Blake01 and Jeff3000 no links as of 2006-12-12
Chinese Ling.Nut partial edit 2006-11-09
Danish Tkynerd last edit December 2, 2006
Defender Jeff3000 no links as of 2006-12-12
Dutch HeartofaDog No links (except c 12 prob best left linked to the disambig page) as at December 4, 2006
English Tkynerd last edit December 3, 2006
Fatigue Nihiltres Added here 2006-12-06, clear at that time.
Formosa Ling.Nut last edit September 26, 2006
German Oatmeal batman last edit: November 25, 2006
Iranian Jeff3000 last edit: November 4, 2006
Italian WolfgangFaber 0 links as of November 12, 2006
Japanese Ling.Nut, Dekimasu 0 links as of 2006-12-09
Lebanese Ithinkhelikesit 0 links as of 2006-12-06
Northwest Tkynerd last edit: December 2, 2006, 4 links to stay in mainspace
Norwegian Tkynerd last edit: December 2, 2006
Ottoman TimBentley 2 links as of December 8, 2006
Ottoman Turkish TimBentley 0 links as of December 8, 2006
Penthouse Emc2 no links as of November 2, 2006
Persian Jeff3000 last edit: October 22, 2006
Prussian HeartofaDog No links as of December 2, 2006
REM Fisherjs 0 links as of 7 December 2006
Rose Bowl Nehrams2020 No links as of December 12, 2006
Spanish HeartofaDog No links (to articles) as of December 2, 2006
Subway Tkynerd last edit: December 3, 2006
Swedish Tkynerd last edit: December 2, 2006
Tackle Nehrams2020 No links as of December 12, 2006
Ting Tkynerd last edit: November 9, 2006
Top Gun Nehrams2020 No links as of December 12, 2006
Turk TimBentley 19 links as of December 8, 2006
Turntable Tkynerd last edit: November 22, 2006

[edit] Pages for Adoption

You can find pages in need of adoption at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Current list or the below list:

[edit] Case studies

Links can accumulate rapidly when no one is watching a page.

French is a typical page for which adoption is useful. Its links were quickly depleted when listed on WP:DPL, but quickly rose to a high level by the next report.

Date Links Notes
7/17 331 WP:DPL report
8/6 474
8/13 27 Was finished by 8/8
9/6 272 WP:DPL report, average growth of about 10 links/day
9/17 12 Was finished by 9/16
10/29 373 Average growth of about 8.5 links/day

These articles provide an overview of how links can accumulate in a month or less. Note that it only took 11 days for links to German to accumulate to over 100.

Page Cleaned (0 Links) Links 09/09/06
French 8 August 2006 276
Filipino 21 August 2006 52
German 29 August 2006 125
Hungarian 19 August 2006 62
Rugby 20 August 2006 68
Spanish 12 August 2006 189