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Occasionally, a reader may follow a link that ends up at a disambiguation page rather than at one of the links shown on that page. The original page can be edited to link directly to its intended destination. Feel free to make such edits; everyone is welcome to improve Knowledge, including you. It
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that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic, making that term likely to be the natural title for more than one article. In other words, disambiguations are paths leading to different articles which could, in principle, have the same title.
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Occasionally, a link may direct a reader to a disambiguation page instead of the intended article. The original page can be edited to link directly to the correct destination. Such edits are encouraged, as
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For example, the word "Mercury" can refer to several things, including an element, a planet, and a Roman god. Since only one Knowledge page can have the generic name
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is about the primary topic, and there are only two other uses. The other uses are linked directly using the hatnotes created with the
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There are three common disambiguation scenarios, of which the following are examples:
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could be you who makes the overall experience of Knowledge that much better.
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pages on Knowledge are used as a process of resolving conflicts in
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Knowledge:Template messages for disambiguation and redirection
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For more comprehensive information and a larger scope, see
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Knowledge:Disambiguation
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Knowledge's policies or guidelines
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vetting
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HELP:DAB
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About Knowledge
Administration
FAQs
Assessing article quality
Authority control
Books
Categories
Censorship
Copyright
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Images and multimedia
ISBN
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Mobile access
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Navigation
Other languages
Page names
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