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{{For|a short introduction written for readers of Wikipedia|Help:Disambiguation}}
{{For|the standards for when and how editors should disambiguate articles|Wikipedia:Disambiguation}}
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'''Disambiguation pages''' (abbreviated often as '''dab pages''' or simply '''DAB''' or '''DABs''') are non-article pages designed to help a reader find the right [[Wikipedia:What is an article?|Wikipedia article]] when different topics could be referred to by the same [[Wikipedia:Search|search]] term, as described in the guidelines at [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation]]. In other words, disambiguation pages help readers find the specific article they want when there is topic [[ambiguity]].
Note that even though most disambiguation pages are kept in the [[Wikipedia:Main namespace|Article namespace (mainspace)]], they are {{em|not}} articles. These pages are aids in searching for articles.
The style guidelines on this page aim to give disambiguation pages a consistent appearance and help the efficiency of searches by excluding extraneous information. Any page containing one of the [[Template:Disambiguation#Variant templates |disambiguation templates]] should contain only disambiguation content, whether or not the [[#Page naming|page title]] contains the parenthetical {{nowrap|"(disambiguation)"}}. For more information on these templates and identifying a disambiguation page, see [[#The disambiguation notice and categorization|§ The disambiguation notice and categorization]] below.
Note that these style guidelines do {{em|not}} apply to article pages containing such sentence- or paragraph-level disambiguation techniques as having a [[hatnote]] at the top of an article pointing to a related subject. These guidelines only apply to pages correctly tagged with a disambiguation template.
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