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	'''Disambiguation''' is the process of resolving the conflicts that can arise when a potential article title is ambiguous or collides with other article titles. Here at All The Tropes this happens most often when multiple unrelated works share the same title. It also can happen when a [[Franchise]] has numerous installments with similar names (sometimes differing only by an installment number), or multiple adaptations in different media. It's also possible to a trope and a work to collide -- case in point, [[The Cape (2010 TV series)]] and [[The Cape (trope)]].		'''Disambiguation''' is the process of resolving the conflicts that can arise when a potential article title is ambiguous or collides with other article titles. Here at All The Tropes this happens most often when multiple unrelated works share the same title. It also can happen when a [[Franchise Index\|franchise]] has numerous installments with similar names (sometimes differing only by an installment number), or multiple adaptations in different media. It's also possible to a trope and a work to collide -- case in point, [[The Cape (2010 TV series)]] and [[The Cape (trope)]].

	We follow Wikipedia's lead in resolving these conflicts by appending media types or other distinguishing information to the individual pages' names, and then listing all those pages on another page created under the common, "natural" name they share. This page is called a ''Disambiguation Page'' -- a non-article page containing links and information allowing the reader to distinguish between all the pages which share a name, and find the one he/she wants.		We follow Wikipedia's lead in resolving these conflicts by appending media types or other distinguishing information to the individual pages' names, and then listing all those pages on another page created under the common, "natural" name they share. This page is called a ''Disambiguation Page'' -- a non-article page containing links and information allowing the reader to distinguish between all the pages which share a name, and find the one he/she wants.