Template:Disambiguation/cat
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This is the {{Disambiguation/cat}} sub-template.
Do not use this template directly, use {{Disambiguation}} or {{Disambiguation cleanup}} instead.
This template is called from {{Disambiguation}} and {{Disambiguation cleanup}}. It handles some of the categorization logic for those templates.
For more documentation see {{Disambiguation}} and {{Disambiguation cleanup}}.
{{Dabcat}} redirects here, and is used by {{Disambiguation cleanup}}.
Parameters
This template takes one parameter and produces a category assignment dependent on that parameter.
The main parameter values (along with their aliases, listed in round brackets) for the categories in this template are as follows:
- Maintenance disambiguation pages
- split: for Category:Disambiguation pages in need of being split
- cleanup (or clean up, or clean-up): for Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup
- one non-primary topic (or non-primary, or non-primary topic): for Category:Disambiguation pages containing one non-primary topic
- Buildings and structures disambiguation pages
- Non-religious buildings and structures disambiguation pages
- building and structure (or building, buildings, structure, structures, or buildings and structures): for Category:Buildings and structures disambiguation pages
- airport (or airports): for Category:Airport disambiguation pages
- architecture: for Category:Architectural disambiguation pages
- hospital (or hospital name, hospital names, or hospitals): for Category:Hospital disambiguation pages
- school (or schooldis, education, educational institution, educational institutions, college, colleges, university, universities, or schools): for Category:Educational institution disambiguation pages
- station (or stations): for Category:Station disambiguation pages
- Religion-specific
- religion (or hindu, hindu temple, hindu temples, religious building, or religious buildings): for Category:Religious buildings and structures disambiguation pages
- church (or church building, church buildings, or churches): for Category:Church building disambiguation pages
- mosque (or mosques): for Category:Mosque disambiguation pages
- synagogue (synagogues): for Category:Synagogue disambiguation pages
- temple (or buddhist, buddhist temple, buddhist temples, or temples): for Category:Buddhist temple disambiguation pages
- Science disambiguation pages
- science: for Category:Science disambiguation pages
- Biology
- biology: for Category:Biology disambiguation pages
- animal: for Category:Animal common name disambiguation pages
- bird: for Category:Bird common name disambiguation pages
- fish: for Category:Fish common name disambiguation pages
- plant (or plants): for Category:Plant common name disambiguation pages
- taxonomy: for Category:Taxonomy disambiguation pages
- genus (or genera): for Category:Genus disambiguation pages
- latin (or latin name, or latin names): for Category:Latin name disambiguation pages
- species latin (or species latin name, or species latin names): for Category:Species Latin name disambiguation pages
- species latin name abbreviation (or species latin name abbr, species latin name abbrs, or species latin name abbreviations): for Category:Species Latin name abbreviation disambiguation pages
- Other science disambiguation pages
- linguistics: for Category:Linguistics disambiguation pages
- math (or mathdab, mathematics, mathematical, or maths): for Category:Mathematics disambiguation pages
- social science (or social): for Category:Social science disambiguation pages
- economics: for Category:Social science disambiguation pages
- Place name disambiguation pages
- geo (or geodis, geography, geographical, place name, place names, place, or places): for Category:Place name disambiguation pages
- county (or counties): for Category:County name disambiguation pages
- uscounty (or uscounties): for Category:United States county name disambiguation pages
- department (or departments): for Category:Department name disambiguation pages
- district (or districts): for Category:District name disambiguation pages
- municipality (or municipalities): for Category:Municipality name disambiguation pages
- parish (or parishes): for Category:Parish name disambiguation pages
- province (or provinces): for Category:Province name disambiguation pages
- township (or townships): for Category:Township name disambiguation pages
- arkansas township (or arkansas townships): for Category:Arkansas township disambiguation pages
- illinois township (or illinois townships): for Category:Illinois township disambiguation pages
- indiana township (or indiana townships): for Category:Indiana township disambiguation pages
- iowa township (or iowa townships): for Category:Iowa township disambiguation pages
- kansas township (or kansas townships): for Category:Kansas township disambiguation pages
- michigan township (or michigan townships): for Category:Michigan township disambiguation pages
- minnesota township (or minnesota townships): for Category:Minnesota township disambiguation pages
- missouri township (or missouri townships): for Category:Missouri township disambiguation pages
- nebraska township (or nebraska townships): for Category:Nebraska township disambiguation pages
- new jersey township (or new jersey townships): for Category:New Jersey township disambiguation pages
- north carolina township (or north carolina townships): for Category:North Carolina township disambiguation pages
- north dakota township (north dakota townships): for Category:North Dakota township disambiguation pages
- ohio township (or ohio townships): for Category:Ohio township disambiguation pages
- oklahoma township (or oklahoma townships): for Category:Oklahoma township disambiguation pages
- pennsylvania township (or pennsylvania townships): for Category:Pennsylvania township disambiguation pages
- south dakota township (or south dakota townships): for Category:South Dakota township disambiguation pages
- Other disambiguation pages
- callsign (or call sign, call signs, broadcast call sign, broadcast call signs, or callsigns): for Category:Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages
- caselaw: for Category:Case law disambiguation pages
- chinese (or chinese char, chinese-char, chinesechar, or chinese character): for Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles
- culture (or language, languages, nationality, nationalities, language and nationality, languages and nationalities, or cultures): for Category:Language and nationality disambiguation pages
- date time (or date, or time): for Category:Date and time disambiguation pages
- flight number (or flight, or flight numbers): for Category:Flight number disambiguation pages
- opus number (or opus, or opus numbers): for Category:Opus number disambiguation pages
- hn (or name, names, human name, human names, or hndis): for Category:Human name disambiguation pages
- surname (or surnames): for Category:Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists
- given name (or given names): for Category:Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists
- hangul: for Category:Disambiguation pages with Hangul titles
- ih same title (or ihs same title): for Category:Lists of Interstate Highways sharing the same title
- letter number (or letter-number): for Category:Letter–number combination disambiguation pages
- military: for Category:Military units and formations disambiguation pages
- number (or numberdis, ambiguous number, ambiguous numbers, or numbers): for Category:Lists of ambiguous numbers
- political party (or party, parties, political, or political parties): for Category:Political party disambiguation pages
- road (or roaddis, or roads): for Category:Road disambiguation pages
- road same title (or roads same title): for Category:Lists of roads sharing the same title
- ship (or ships): for Category:Ship disambiguation pages
- technology and engineering (or engineering, tech, tech and engineering, or technology): for Category:Technology and engineering disambiguation pages
- template (or templates): for Category:Template disambiguation pages
- temple name (or temple names): for Category:Temple name disambiguation pages
- tndis: for Category:Title and name disambiguation pages
- transport route (or transport routes): for Category:Transport route disambiguation pages
This list is currently complete as of 28 October 2023[update], but we still add new categories to this template every now and then.
Error reporting
If an invalid parameter is fed to this template it displays an error message and categorizes the page into Category:Wikipedia disambig or set index box parameter needs fixing. Thus editors can see when they use an invalid parameter, and if they don't notice it we can easily find and fix such cases by taking a look in that category.