Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links
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Just FYI, {{Regiments by number}} has been added to a slew of disambiguation pages by +JMJ+ adding all the pages to this list in the process. Seems to me the template goes against guidance at WP:DABICON. older ≠ wiser 11:50, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages#When to ignore the guidelines:
ignore these guidelines if doing so will be more helpful to readers than following them.
- The point of the template was to help readers orient themselves between the disambiguation pages and jump between them easier/faster. All of the regimental disambiguation pages are now more of a web. The very standard naming of all the disambiguation pages also lent itself for such a template, which would fit all of them so easily. Also, so far, in the page history, three different editors constructively added to the template without voicing criticism against its very existence, which would indicate to me that such a template is more helpful to readers than not. +JMJ+ (talk) 21:46, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
- Disambiguation pages are specifically for aiding navigation regarding the ambiguous title in question and getting readers where they already intended to go, and the template links to a large assortment of pages that are not ambiguous with the title of the page. I could, perhaps, see a link in a "see also" section to a List of regiments by number if that existed, but such a page might also just be deleted under WP:NOT as a granfalloon; maybe a link to "intitle:1st Regiment" results would be appropriate. A reader using the 1st Regiment disambiguation page to navigate to 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery does not have any more need of a link to 119th Regiment than to 1st Division (Australia), Australian Army, or any assortment of other links that are regularly excluded from inclusion on a dab page, which has always been intended to focus on getting readers from meta material to content through maximizing simplicity. Dekimasuよ! 01:16, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
This is a hidden disambiguation, in the sense that it's a general article about the several such schools in France, but almost all the links in articles actually mean Beaux-Arts de Paris. Colonies Chris (talk) 13:12, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
Dear fellow DPL warriors - I am aware that there are now hundreds of links to the newly-created disambiguation pages Amstel Gold Race, Brabantse Pijl and Tour of Flanders, all as a result of my closing an RM. I am working through them slowly and as ever your help is appreciated. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:28, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
Since the DPL bot FAQ links here: there's a discussion that might interest y'all. CapnZapp (talk) 08:18, 17 June 2025 (UTC)