Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 20, 2006

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Formatting disambiguation pages

Disambiguation pages are solely intended to allow users to choose among several Wikipedia articles, usually when a user searches for an ambiguous term. These pages aren't for exploration, but only to help the user navigate to a specific article. To make the searching more efficient, disambiguation pages should never link to pages other than the search terms, should not have pipes " | " in the wikilinks which conceal the actual title of a linked article by replacing it with other text, and should avoid distracting information.

Read more: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)

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