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Category:Wikipedia category-disambiguation box parameter needs fixing

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This is a Wikipedia maintenance category.

This category is automatically populated by the template {{Category disambiguation}}. Category pages that feed any category parameter to those boxes in the wrong way are put in this category. This is so we can easily find those pages and fix them.

The most common fixes that need to be done are:

  • Misspelling the category name. For instance {{Category disambiguation|the year|2000|the comic|2000 AD (comcs)}} should be changed to {{Category disambiguation|the year|2000|the comic|2000 AD (comics)}}.
  • Listing a category page that has not yet been created. Fix it by clicking the red link in the disambiguation box and create the category page. Be sure to check that it isn't just a misspelled or misnamed link.

If some case is too tricky or a category page is protected so you can't edit it, don't worry. More experienced editors and admins will work through the cases that get left in this category.

MediaWiki runs updates of category listings (as the one you see below) as a low priority job. Thus if the servers are very busy it can take some days before a category is removed from the list below, even though the category page has been fixed. But normally it is removed within an hour.

Sometimes you need to purge a page to see your change of a {{Category disambiguation}} box and to get rid of this category from the bottom of a page.

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