Wikipedia:Disambiguation

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Sometimes a word means more than one thing, so you might want the same title for two different pages.

To solve this, we disambiguate.

Wikipedia grows very fast because making links is quite simple and natural. When you type in a window for editing, put two brackets on each side of the word (like this: [[Mercury]]) and you will get Mercury. If you do this to a word, you have made it a link.

There are many things called Mercury. Some of these are:

• Mercury (mythology), the Roman god
• Mercury (planet), the first planet from the Sun
• Mercury (element), the chemical element

Mercury can also mean many other things. Which one did you mean to link?