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Disambiguation is the process of clarifying which similar titles point to which article topics. Wikipedia tries to make linking simple and automatic: as you're typing, put brackets around Paris and you'll have a link. But were you intending to link to the French city, or to the mythical Trojan hero?

Solving this ambiguity involves two steps: first, appropriate (and distinct) titles must be chosen for the more specific topics; then, a short article should be written under the general title that points to those specific articles, perhaps explaining the differences among them.

more to come here...

List of diambiguating pages

The new Wikipedia software has a feature that lists "[special:LonelyPages orphan]" pages; that is, pages that no other page links to. But for many disambiguating pages, that's perfectly correct: we want the disambiguating page to show up in a search, and be there for accidental linking, but if all pages actually link to the more specific pages, that's a good thing.

So, in order to make the orphans list more useful by not cluttering it with intentional orphans, disambiguating pages are linked from here. If you create a disambiguating page, put a link to it here.

20000 Leagues Under the Seas

A: Aa - Abendana - Albert - Albert III - Alexander - Alexander I - Alexander II - Alexius - Allegany County - Alleghany County - Alphonso I - Alphonso II - Alphonso III - Alphonso IV - Alphonso V - Amalric - Amalthea - Amp - Apollo - Atlas

B: Bourbon

C: Ceres - Christchurch - Coen brothers, the - Columbia - Cork - Crap -CSS

D: Date - DDR - Defense - Descent - Domain

E: English - Enterprise - Europa

F: Flash - Frederick County

G: Game of Life - Goya

H: Hackers - Hash

I: Inflation - Io - IPA

J: Java - Jupiter

K: Key

L: Libertarian - Lock - Loop

M: M. A. - Mars - Mercury - Metis

N: Neptune - NLP

O:

P: Palm - Pascal - PHP - Pitch - PKD - Pluto - Po - Poop - Pop - Pot

Q: Quo vadis

R: Reproduction - Rom

S: SAT - Saturn - Seal - Set - Sex changer - Shell - Singer - Snuff - Solaris - Spam - St Albans - Station - Sting

T: Thread - Titan - Tom Jones - Triton

U: Uranus - USC - UU

V: Venus - Vesta - VSO - Vulcan

W: Wellington - William of Orange - World

X: XP

Y:

Z: