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    Just a heads up that I've created redlink as a redirect to a disambiguation page (since someone else created redlinks and I figured the singular was at least as plausible as the plural). I think I've flushed out any templates assuming that page doesn't exist, but if some do somewhere they will likely show up here. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:15, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    Could someone take a look at Template:Mosques in Georgia (country). When you try to edit or view it takes you to Template:Mosques in Denmark so I don't know how to correct the dab link which should go to List of mosques in Georgia (country).— Rod talk 09:25, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Rodw: This isn't a WT:DPL matter. The problem is that this edit by Rangasyd (talk · contribs) altered |name=Mosques in Georgia (country) to |name=Mosques in Denmark. All that was necessary was to alter it back to |name=Mosques in Georgia (country), but The Banner (talk · contribs) made it sort-of-worse in this edit - Template:Mosques in Georgia isn't the name of the template, it doesn't even exist. Anyway, if ignored, it would show up tomorrow on Wikipedia:Database reports/Invalid Navbar links, so I've fixed it early. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:16, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    A couple of links to dab pages in Template:Fox Kids were fixed a few days ago, however multiple articles which use this template still appear on Articles With Multiple Dablinks. As these do not seem to be resolving through normal processes a series of Help:Purge#Null edits may be needed. There are too many for me to do these manually so I was wondering if somone who is expert with AWB or similar tools would consider tackling these?— Rod talk 10:02, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

     Done --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:45, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks - should take Digimon Adventure & Goosebumps (disambiguation) off the list at the next update.— Rod talk 19:18, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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    6 days ago a link to the dab page Savitar onTemplate:Hindu deities and texts was fixed with the link being changed to Savitr. 174 links are still showing at Disambig fix list for Savitar. This may need someone with AWB or similar to do a series null edits.— Rod talk 13:36, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Done. Mackensen (talk) 13:41, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:Regiments by number

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    Just FYI, {{Regiments by number}} has been added to a slew of disambiguation pages by +JMJ+ adding all the pages to this list in the process. Seems to me the template goes against guidance at WP:DABICON. olderwiser 11:50, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages#When to ignore the guidelines: ignore these guidelines if doing so will be more helpful to readers than following them.
    The point of the template was to help readers orient themselves between the disambiguation pages and jump between them easier/faster. All of the regimental disambiguation pages are now more of a web. The very standard naming of all the disambiguation pages also lent itself for such a template, which would fit all of them so easily. Also, so far, in the page history, three different editors constructively added to the template without voicing criticism against its very existence, which would indicate to me that such a template is more helpful to readers than not. +JMJ+ (talk) 21:46, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Disambiguation pages are specifically for aiding navigation regarding the ambiguous title in question and getting readers where they already intended to go, and the template links to a large assortment of pages that are not ambiguous with the title of the page. I could, perhaps, see a link in a "see also" section to a List of regiments by number if that existed, but such a page might also just be deleted under WP:NOT as a granfalloon; maybe a link to "intitle:1st Regiment" results would be appropriate. A reader using the 1st Regiment disambiguation page to navigate to 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery does not have any more need of a link to 119th Regiment than to 1st Division (Australia), Australian Army, or any assortment of other links that are regularly excluded from inclusion on a dab page, which has always been intended to focus on getting readers from meta material to content through maximizing simplicity. Dekimasuよ! 01:16, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]