Yes. But for interwiki bots for example, {{surname}} and the set index templates should be considered as disambiguations, because not doing so completely messes up interwikis.

For example, in most of the languages, the localized {{surname}} is marked as disambiguation. Which means that most of the interwiki cycles of {{surname}} are incomplete. Example: * The bot find disambiguation pages on fr, which links to an en: page. * it checks the en: page. * the en page is not a "disambiguation", it's a "set index template". * Bot conclusion: one page is a disambiguation, the other is not. Different content; do not link them, and bail out.

But in reality they _should_ be linked together.

I had a lengthy discussion about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Disambiguationspage#Re-add_.7B.7... We eventually found a hackish solution, thanks to David Gothberg, it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Disambiguationspage#Solution.3F (aka also listing set index templates on the MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage page, but use a (( )) convention).

Until now I haven't found the time to implement in PYWP that solution.

2009/5/14, Russell Blau russblau@imapmail.org:

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Initial Comment: Please add {{surname}}, {{hndis}} and {{given name}} to the list of possible disambiguation templates on en.wikipedia for interwiki.py.

According to en.wikipedia standards, none of these is a disambiguation template.

Russ

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