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A disambiguation page is a page designed to help readers find the correct article when two or more articles deal with subjects with the same names. To disambiguate a word or phrase is to clarify which sense is meant or to list out all the different possible meanings. Disambiguation pages should not be used either to give all the possible senses used in English (disambiguation is not a dictionary), but should be used as a directory to articles with the same names. The disambiguation page should list only those articles that really could be confused with the word or phrase in the title of the disambiguation page. A good example is reel.

All disambiguation pages should be in Category:Disambiguation (this can be done by adding the {{disambig}} template), and not in any other categories such as Category:CZ Live or the workgroup categories.

See Naming Conventions, Disambiguation mechanics and List of multi-use words.

To create a disambiguation page

The following instructions will use "reel" as its example.