Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links

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Dear fellow DPL warriors - I am aware that there are now hundreds of links to the newly-created disambiguation pages Amstel Gold Race, Brabantse Pijl and Tour of Flanders, all as a result of my closing an RM. I am working through them slowly and as ever your help is appreciated. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:28, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:53, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Since the DPL bot FAQ links here: there's a discussion that might interest y'all. CapnZapp (talk) 08:18, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to propose Switchboard or some similar reference to manual telephone routing as a bit of shorthand for this patrol's purpose, as there's no existing term for this relatively complex process (that honestly isn't super well articulated in "Disambiguation pages with links", as "links" may well be interpreted as the various destination pages that all DABs are expected to have) as well as an issue that a lot of Wikipedia contributors may not be aware of. The switchboard metaphor is quite effective at communicating the idea of "routing a vague link to its correct destination" while also making it more obvious to editors, through the real-world association, that they should be aware of these dangling references and make an effort to check and reroute all links themselves so that a "switchboard operator" doesn't need to do it afterwards. Catgirl Mozart (talk) 02:23, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles that can't be redirected as there isn't enough specificity in the article itself.

Punjab University - Mirajul Haq Deobandi (neither article sources nor his online research page specify)
Posen - Zeppelin LZ 49 (presumably indicated in the source provided, but I couldn't find the book. presumably Reichsgau Posen, but also may be Poznań)
Politics of Korea - People's Republic of Korea, League of Mobilization in Korea (actual link to the DAB not found?)

More doubtless coming soon. Catgirl Mozart (talk) 16:13, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The second one is Poznań, per the German article from which the enwiki article was translated. (Also Reichsgau Posen didn't exist in 1915.)

The links in the third item are produced by infobox templates that automatically generate links based on the article title or other fields in the infobox, so they often produce dab-page links (e.g. "[Topic] in Korea", that links to a dab page that has links to "[Topic] in North Korea" and "[Topic] in South Korea") that can't be fixed in the article itself.

You might find useful the gadget that displays ambiguous links in orange. You can find it in your preferences tab: Preferences > Gadgets > scroll down to Appearance. —ShelfSkewed Talk 17:08, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! Catgirl Mozart (talk) 17:20, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Bengali Wedding" has been stuck for 4+ months simply because there doesn't exist a standalone page for "Marriage in Bangladesh", and all references to it redirect here. The creation of a separate page for this topic would solve the issue - someone in the Talk page has already started it Catgirl Mozart (talk) 00:23, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Several lists on toolforge (eg Templates with disambiguation links, Templates with disambiguation links ) are timing out with the error message: "The web service for this tool is running but cannot be reached. Please check the error logs of your web service." The links given for the tool maintainers do not work/have stopped editing. Can anyone help?— Rod ^talk 19:55, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]