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  • There are many thousands of disambiguation pages. They're all in various states of conformance to the Manual of Style, and they all see different amounts of traffic. Thus, we need a way to:
    • Systematize, so that we know which disambigs need work and which are done.
    • Prioritize, so that we can work on the most oft-used pages first, and leave out-of-the-way ones until later.

--Smack (talk) 03:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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  • Fixing links to disambigs is mind-numbing. In my experience, after half an hour of fixing links, my head starts to swim and I have to sit and vegetate for a while. If I interrupt my progress periodically to fix pages that obviously have other problems, I can fix about forty pages in that time. To me, that's not satisfactory. It would be nice to have a bot, similar to the one used for the Wiki Syntax project. This bot would do three things:
    1. Identify every page that links to a disambig page (using Category:Disambiguation and Special:Whatlinkshere)
    2. Search through each of these pages for every link to a disambig
    3. Generate a link to an edit window in which every one of these links has been suitably marked, maybe like this: ].

--Smack (talk) 03:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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