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— FireFox • T • 13:29, 5 March 2006

Bravo for your "project" to improve Wikipedia's disambiguation pages! A couple of suggestions/requests, though (arising from your edits to Monocle (disambiguation)):

Per WP:MOSDAB, in most cases the links to articles being disambiguated should not be piped. The reason for this is that the actual name of the article is much more helpful to the person looking for that article than having every link appear with the ambiguous text (e.g. monocle or monocle is less clear than monocle (magazine) or monocle (comics).
Avoid adding entries to things that aren't ambiguous, like "The Monocled Mutineer". Disambiguation pages are not general indexes. They are aids for the case where someone has made a link to what they thought would be the most likely name, and got it wrong. Nobody would make the link "[[monocle]]" expecting it to lead to "The Monocled Mutineer" or The Emerald Monocle. When there are peripheral things like this that you really feel you have to include, put them in a separate "see also" section, rather than in the disambiguation list.

Thanks again for your cleanup efforts! They are much appreciated. Bad disambiguation pages are a pet peeve of mine, too.--Srleffler 23:07, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE:St Andrews Cathedral Priory

Short answer ... no. The Cathedral is the cathedral, the priory is the house for the monastic canons of the cathedral. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 09:28, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Walton

Hi - could you explain why you have amended the style of the birth dates on this disambiguation page, from (born → (b. ?? The change goes directly against the Manual of Style. I've reverted your change, pending your response. Disambiguator 21:12, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

yes....reference WP:ABB. also protocol suggests that you talk before you revert. --emerson7 | Talk 21:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:20, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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