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If a user adds a link to a disambiguation page in the mainspace, suggest changing the link
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For @BD2412 and the other editors repairing disambiguation problems:

In the visual editor, disambiguation links are usually identified when you make them, which helps editors avoid linking to the wrong page (e.g., [[Mercury]] when they mean [[Mercury (element)]]). But perhaps we could go further there, and actively suggest changing such links.

See also: T97063: Alert editors before they save an edit creating a disambiguation link (or at least a high-traffic disambiguation link).

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This is very, very similar to T145622... but not *exactly* the same.

Deskana moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.

Sometimes links to disambiguation pages are intentional. Eg. in redirects for alternative spelling of some common name, information that there are other meanings of some words/phrases or lins to a list of various editions of particulat text in Wikisources.

I oppose making such warning general for all wikis.

I suggest avoiding suggesting disambiguation pages as the first or second hit in Link in VE

I suggest avoiding suggesting disambiguation pages as the first or second hit in Link in VE

Done with T285510. Unfortunately we don't have data prior to that being deployed, but analysis now shows that links to disambiguation pages are rarely made with VisualEditor: T289534#7309057