Wikipedia:Disambiguation detector

Disambiguation Detectoris a tool that marksinternal linksthat point todisambiguation pageswith a yellow font color. As a general rule, pages should not contain links pointing to disambiguation pages: links should point to a specific "unambiguous" page.

Installation

To install the tool you must have an account and be logged in. InSpecial:Preferences,"Gadgets" and "Appearance", mark the box next to the text "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange". This will activate the tool.

Touninstallthe tool, uncheck this same box in Preferences.

Technical information

This tool is based on theAPI of Wikipedia.Every time a page is loaded, it checks the categories belonging to all linked pages within it, and checks to see if any of these links are in the categorydisambiguationor the categoryarticles of unclear notability.If the search comes up positive, the corresponding items are colored yellow.

See also

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation

Author

Script's author is the userAPPERof German Wikipedia.