Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Adopting disambiguation pages

Many new links to Wikipedia disambiguation pages are created every day. Many Wikipedians actively participate in the Disambiguation link repair project, tirelessly repairing these links. After a dab page has been cleaned of links from the main namespace, however, it is sometimes assumed that the problem has been resolved. Unfortunately, links accumulate like mushrooms when a dab page is left unattended. The problem is left for someone else to resolve at a later date, creating needless reduplication of time and effort.

An efficient means of resolving this problem is adopting a disambiguation page. This captures efficiencies, since Wikipedians build up a certain level of understanding of a given topic after a number of fixes, and thus are equipped to handle that page well.

Adoption is not ownership. You can tag-team adopt a really troublesome page, or merely help with the 'shroom cleanup on someone else's adopted page.

How to help

 * Be bold. Adopt a page. Add your name onto a page that has already adopted, for tag-team mushroom eradication.

Adopted Pages
Feel free to add yourself and your adopted disambiguation pages in the table below. There are guidelines for disambiguation link repair on Disambiguation pages with links.

Pages for Adoption
You can find pages in need of adoption at Disambiguation pages with links/Current list or the below list:

Case studies
Links can accumulate rapidly when no one is watching a page.

French is a typical page for which adoption is useful. Its links were quickly depleted when listed on WP:DPL, but quickly rose to a high level by the next report.

These articles provide an overview of how links can accumulate in a month or less. Note that it only took 11 days for links to German to accumulate to over 100.