Dabfix helps you build and maintain disambiguation pages faster—typically completing 1 hour of work in under ten minutes. Using keyword matching to find articles, both existing (blue links) and non-existing (red links), and attempts to add descriptions, lifespans, and release years. It displays all the information collected in the edit window, where you can rephrase and copy and paste to the main list. Don't want to work? Hit the first button to remove automatically generated (don't worry it wont remove what you've edited) and then the second button to remove all the generated links.
Remember this tool is only designed to make easier for you to edit—Not to do the editing for you. Familiarize yourself Dos and Don'ts below, the Manual of Style, and other wiki principles.
Missing entries | Random | Foo (song) need to be added to Foo (disambiguation) |
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Add DoD | Random | Year of death needs to be added. |
Fix Wiktionary sisterbox | Random | Links to non-existent Wiktionary entries. Dabfix may find valid links to add. |
Remove orphaned redlinks | Random | Red links with no incoming links. The link may have been added by an IP vandal, copied from translation, or deleted. |
Remove __NOTOC__ from disambigs | Random | |
Italic human name | Human name using {{italic title}} | |
Missing {{disambig}} | Pages marked as disambiguation, but missing the required templates | |
Redirects—{{disambig}} | Redirects marked as disambiguation pages. These are all invalid. | |
Tiny disambiguation | ||
Long short pages | Disambiguation pages, given name and surname articles which no longer need {{long comment}} | |
MoS cleanup | Random, Stats | Eighteen Manual of Style issues inspired by Josh Parris's MOS:DAB Bot proposal. Also for Simple Wikipedia |
Wrong redirect | Redirects ending in (disambiguation) not pointing to the correct disambiguation page |
DO: | DON'T: |
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From Wikipedia:Disambiguation dos and don'ts |
Code | Description | MoS | Pages | Autofix | ||
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1 | O | More than one red link on a line | MOS:DABRL | 861 | 0.30% | No |
2 | N | Red link with no blue link | MOS:DABRL | 26,478 | 9.15% | No |
3 | M | Multiple blues link on a line | MOS:DABENTRY | 37,430 | 12.93% | Yes |
6 | P | Punctuation on line | MOS:DABENTRY | 22,423 | 7.75% | Yes |
7 | L | No bullet lists | MOS:DABENTRY | 206 | 0.07% | # →* |
9 | C | Non-capitalized entry† | MOS:DABENTRY | 1,282 | 0.44% | Yes |
10 | B | Bold text on line | MOS:DABENTRY | 1,508 | 0.52% | Yes |
11 | F | Less than two blue links on the page | WP:TWODAB | 3,733 | 1.29% | Suggestions |
12 | E | External link | MOS:DABEXT | 674 | 0.23% | No |
13 | R | <ref> tag | MOS:DABENTRY | 730 | 0.25% | No |
14 | S | Unpiped #section on line | MOS:DABSECTION | 1,632 | 0.56% | Usually |
- | T | Link is piped to hide (subject) suffix |
MOS:DABPIPE | 18,344 | 6.34% | Usually |
- | X | Excessively long line | MOS:DABENTRY | 1,337 | 0.46% | No |
- | H | Long unbroken list (30+ item) | 591 | 0.20% | No | |
- | U | No link on line | MOS:DABENTRY | 5,717 | 1.98% | Re-links |