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Welcome!

Hello, Kieran Cummins, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Ξxtreme Unction|_{yakkity yak} 00:27, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. You did the disambiguation correctly. Congrats, and thanks.

Francis Barrett

Fixed. Francis Barrett is now a disambiguation page, with links to Francis Barrett (occultist) and Francis Barrett (boxer). Page moves were required. And now I get to go make sure anything which once linked to Francis Barrett now links to Francis Barrett (occultist). Ξxtreme Unction|_{yakkity yak} 01:15, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Let's say there is already an article named [[Foo]]. But there is also an article called [[Foo (bar)]]. And you want to disambiguate the articles. The general process is as follows:

MOVE article [[Foo]] to some other name (say, [[Foo (baz)]]). This step can be done by regular users, and will automatically create a redirect from [[Foo]] to [[Foo (baz)]]. At this point, anybody who types in "Foo" in their search bar and clicks "Go" will find themselves at [[Foo (baz)]].
EDIT the old [[Foo]] article, delete the redirect, and add in the disambiguation info.

Some caveats are worth noting, however:

If one article can reasonably lay claim to being the most prominent example of articles with that title, it's common practice to let that article exist under the main article title, and create a disambiguation page that explicitly has "disambiguation" in the title. Like, if there were some guy named "David Letterman" who wrote a book about chemistry, it would not be uncommon or inappropriate to have "David Letterman" be an article about the famous talk-show host, and have a link at the top of the article saying something like "This is an article about the American talk-show host. For the author of the chemistry book, see [[David Letterman (author)]]." If there were other David Lettermans, the link could say "This is an article about the American talk-show host. For other people named David Letterman, see the disambiguation page." This is because people who look up David Letterman will, in the main, be looking up information about the American talk show host.

If you move a page (ex: [[Foo]] --> [[Foo (bar)]]), make sure that the parenthetical title you give the page is reasonably accurate and descriptive. Some folks get a mite testy when you move pages to a title they don't approve of, and then things get ugly.

Anyhow, that's the basics. Hope you find it useful.

All the best,

Ξxtreme Unction|_{yakkity yak} 04:37, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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