Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Adopting disambiguation pages
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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, tirelessly 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.
[edit] Pages for Adoption
You can find pages in need of adoption at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Current list or the below list:
- Producer (213 links) (+27)
- Arab Empire (167 links) (+53)
- Las Vegas (150 links) (+35)
- James (137 links) (+72)
- Marty Friedman (119 links) (+58)
- CBC (230 links) (+112)
[edit] Case studies
Links can accumulate rapidly when no one is watching a page.
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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.
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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.
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