Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Resources

Draft Resources and Strategies for the wp:DPL project

This is intended to be a more expanded guide to disambiguation than can be provided in abbreviated form at the wp:DPL page. This is intended to be an informal alternative to wp:Disambiguation in some ways, and material developed here might be used in improving that document. It may discuss strategies for individuals to be effective. It may discuss strategies for the collective to work together in different ways, complementing tried-and-true approaches. It may collect FAQs or tips in a more informal, evolving way than can the more public other documents.

FAQ:How can I find the dablinks within a given WikiProject's articles?

 * discussed at wt:dpl during February to August 2015

TBA (to be added)

Tip:Disambiguating acronyms

 * Compare to WP:DABACRONYM and wp:ACRO

Often acronyms require disambiguation, including times when the acronym is being introduced in a parenthetical expression, following the full term which it abbreviates. Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS)'s section on acronyms is clear that the first usage of an acronym in an article should be as an introduction that way. But MOS focuses on the appearance to the reader, and does not comment at all on linking. How should the acronym be disambiguated? For example, consider when IEA is the acronym to disambiguate when the preceding full term is either unlinked as in

International Energy Agency (IEA)

or linked as in

International Energy Agency (IEA).

In both cases it can be tempting, especially when using Dabsolver, to replace IEA by IEA and move on. But then why should just the acronym be linked, and not the preceding full term? Or why should the reader be given two links? It is preferable to wikilink the whole phrase, instead, as by:

International Energy Agency (IEA)

When using Dabsolver this requires direct editing after you select "Show changes" and an edit source window is given, and before your hitting "Save". Use of the help:pipe trick can sometimes be handy: if you can manually edit what's there into International Energy Agency (IEA), and hit enter, then the pipelink character "|" before the ending brackets will ensure that what's actually added to the article is International Energy Agency.

Bugs and Questions
wp:DABSISTER is about inter-wiki links. Is that not relevant at all now that links are shifted to wikidata? So maybe it should be deleted from wp:DISAMBIGUATION. But, what about other language wikipedias' dab pages as resources to help here. DiegoVegas(?) noted ___.