Wikipedia:Navigation pages
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A navigation page (navpage) is a list article that contains links to articles and/or sections that contain information on a given topic. For example, Ethiopia in World War II lists articles that contain information pertaining to Ethiopia's involvement in World War II, and Nick Fuentes, Donald Trump, and Kanye West meeting lists articles that contain sections about the meeting.
Navpages are a useful alternative to redirects in cases where a topic with no article of its own is covered in multiple existing articles, resulting in a situation where there appears to be two or more suitable targets for a redirect named after that topic, which can cause dilemmas for contributors who create and maintain redirects. Navpages resolve such dilemmas by listing all of the articles and/or sections that could have been suitable targets for redirects with their titles. Another benefit is that each navpage can serve as a common target for multiple redirects, which would otherwise be tedious to attempt to decide on targets for.
A navigation page can be tagged with {{Navigation page}}.
Navigation, disambiguation, and set indexes
[edit]A navigation page is neither a disambiguation page nor a set index article:
- A disambiguation page lists articles that primarily focus on different items, which may be of different types.
- A set index article lists articles that primarily focus on different items, all of which are of the same type.
- A navigation page focuses on one item, but does not offer substantial information about it; instead, it lists articles and/or sections where such information can be found.
How to determine whether a page could be a navigation page
[edit]| Is the topic the only one with its title? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yes | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Should there be an article with the topic's title? | Are these topics of the same type? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yes | No | Yes | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ordinary article, stand-alone list, or broad-concept article | How many other articles contain information on the topic? | Set index article | Disambiguation page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| None | One | Multiple | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unsuitable for the mainspace | Redirect | Navigation page | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||