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I am new to wiki editing (but am learning quickly). I want to use template "Otheruses4" which I discovered at en.wikipedia.org, but it appears that there is no shorthand way in aoc.wikia.com to have the simple form of disambiguation at the top of 2 ambiguous pages (if 3 or more pages were ambiguous, then I'd use a disambiguation page).

IS THERE a template with another name that I can use? If not, could someone please copy the templates from en.wikipedia.org? I am not sure which ones are needed exactly to make the use of Template:Otheruses4 work, but could include: Template:About, Template:Dablink, and Template:Otheruses4

For more info on what I am thinking about, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Otheruses_templates

The usage I want to use for page "Oak," the tradeskill resource, is (with double braces around):
Otheruses4|Oak (tradeskill resource)|boss in The Cistern)|Oak (boss)

I will then put a similar line on page "Oak (boss)," the less common usage.

An unrelated question I have is, why are there so many UNcategorized templates? (Special:UncategorizedTemplates)
-Greg J 19:15, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, there is {{disambig}} you can use on the disambiguation page itself, just manually do the other pages to link to under it, see Cimmeria (Disambiguation) as an example. After that, on the relevant pages for the "other uses" you can use {{ambig}}, will that do what you want?
Daworm  talk / cont 21:29, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the fast response! I really appreciate it! The templates you mention are to help use a disambiguation page, which I understand to be recommended when an ambiguous term has 3 or more meanings and pages. When there are only 2 possible meanings, what seems to be recommended is not to use a disambiguation page, but to put something like the following at the top of the pages. (This would go at the top of the Cimmeria page:)
This page is about Cimmeria, the geographical territory. For Cimmeria, the server, see Cimmeria (server).
and this at the top of the Cimmeria (server) page:
This page is about Cimmeria (server). For Cimmeria, the geographical territory, see Cimmeria.
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Otherpeople4 template helps standardize the wording and format.
-Greg J 04:42, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
You could try {{AlsoSee}}, it's in use on Conan and Killer Rhino at the bottom for example. We're not wikipedia so things won't be a straight copy/paste from them, but we will implement our own type of templates. If that's not sufficient I'll look at getting Otherpeople setup later.
Daworm  talk / cont 01:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
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