WikiHelp:Disambiguation

This help page is for creating or editing disambiguation pages.

Creating & Editing Guidelines
Before you start creating make sure that the disambiguation page you are creating is & will be useful, for example: 

'''DO NOT create a disambiguation page if it will only have one page/blog post/etc listed. '''

DO create a page if there is multiple (at least more than one) pages that a user could get confused with.

'''To make a disambiguation page, first put in the common word/name, then after that put in (disambiguation). '''

Make sure you capitalize the term/word/name, but DO NOT capitalize the first letter in disambiguation.

The first written words in all disambiguation pages should be the following:

We're sorry, but (word/name/term here, capitalize all the letters first letter(s) in it, and make it bold text here) may mean one of the following:

Now, insert the bullet list. For now on, I am going to be using 'Sunfish' as the term.

Now, start adding info, and a very simple & brief description (which is separated by a comma the listed), so users can find the page they are looking for with more ease. Here are some of the guidelines for certain things:


 * 1) (this only applies to living things) Put the most common term, then insert the species/family's/genus/etc name in parentheses, then say what type of family or genus it is composed of, or if it is a species say what main type it is then put in where it can be found (if it is only found in a few places), what type of water it lives in, and anything else really needed. (Example: Sunfish (Centrarchidae), a family of freshwater ray-finned fish.)
 * 2) When needed, please put text in italic, such as for a species or genus name, or for a name of a ship.
 * 3) Always put the word/term/name in bold text.
 * 4) Also put the word/term/name of one of the things it could mean in bold text, but not in its description.
 * 5) DO NOT try and add it under the category Disambiguations; we will add that using a special wikia feature later.
 * 6) Make sure you have one space before the listing starts from 'We're sorry' part.

Now, if you have NOT added the Disambiguation template yet (it automatically makes a page under the Disambiguation category) then do so. You can find under Templates in Insert in the visual editor (template link). But in the source editor, you can easily add it by putting in   at the top of a page.

Make sure that the Disambiguation template is only two line spaces away from the listing and the 'We're sorry' part.

Here is a good page to study about disambiguations.