Wikipedia:Navigation pages
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A navigation page (navpage) is a list article that contains links to articles and/or sections that contain information on a given topic. For example, School uniforms in the United Kingdom lists articles that contain information about school uniforms in the United Kingdom's constituent countries, and Nick Fuentes, Donald Trump, and Kanye West meeting lists articles that contain sections about the meeting.
Navpages were proposed as a useful alternative to redirects in cases where a topic with no article of its own is covered in multiple existing articles, resulting in a situation where there appears to be two or more suitable targets for a redirect named after that topic, which can cause dilemmas for contributors who create and maintain redirects. Navpages are intended to resolve such dilemmas by listing all of the articles and/or sections that could have been suitable targets for redirects with their titles. Another purported benefit is that each navpage can serve as a common target for multiple redirects, which would otherwise be tedious to attempt to decide on targets for.
A navigation page can be tagged with {{Navigation page}}.
Navigation, disambiguation, and set indexes
[edit]A navigation page is neither a disambiguation page nor a set index article:
- A disambiguation page lists articles that primarily focus on different items, which may be of different types.
- A set index article lists articles that primarily focus on different items, all of which are of the same type.
- A navigation page focuses on one item, but does not offer substantial information about it; instead, it lists articles and/or sections where such information can be found.
How to determine whether a page could be a navigation page
[edit]| Does a page's title refer to only one topic? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yes | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Should there be an article with that title? | Are these topics of the same type? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yes | No | Yes | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ordinary article, stand-alone list, or broad-concept article | How many other articles contain information on the topic? | Set index article | Disambiguation page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| None | One | Multiple | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No mainspace page (for now) | Redirect | Navigation page | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Navigation pages
[edit]Page style
[edit]Each navigation page comprises a list (or multiple lists) of links to articles and/or sections containing information on a particular topic.
- Introductory sentence:
- The following articles deal with Nick Fuentes, Donald Trump, and Kanye West meeting:
- Not all introductory sentences have to follow the same format. Example:
- Team Cherry is an Australian independent video game studio. They are the developers of:
- Each bulleted entry should have a navigable (blue) link as the entry itself.
- If linking to a section, use {{section link}}. For example, the wikitext
{{section link|Example|Section}}will appear as Example § Section.
- If linking to a section, use {{section link}}. For example, the wikitext
What not to include
[edit]Related subjects
[edit]Articles should generally only be included if they actually contain content pertinent to the navigation page's subject. For example, the article East African campaign (World War II) order of battle contains information pertinent to Ethiopia's involvement in World War II, so Ethiopia in World War II legitimately includes an entry for that article.
Articles with only trivial mentions
[edit]Articles should generally only be included as list entries if they contain content that describes the navigation page's subject in detail. If the only articles in which a subject is mentioned merely mention that subject without providing detailed information, then a navigation page may not be justified without consensus. If a subject is mentioned in multiple articles, but only one of those articles actually describes the subject in detail, it may be better for that subject's page to simply redirect to that one article in particular.
For example, after the article on the Namibian politician Adolf Uunona was deleted, it was later recreated as a navigation page that listed Oshipumbu and Ompundja Constituency, but it was soon speedied under criterion G4 and subsequently recreated again, but this time as a redirect to the article about the Ompundja Constituency, which contained more information about Uunona than the one about the village of Oshipumbu.
References
[edit]When the first navigation pages were introduced in April 2025, a few of the early navigation pages that were being created contained references, which some editors deemed inappropriate for a page of this nature, as the inclusion of references would make a navigation page look more like a stub. If enough references are found to support an article on a subject, then an article should be created instead of a navpage.
Construction
[edit]To create a basic navigation page using the source editor, type the following:
- The following articles deal with '''Subject name here''':
* [[Article that mentions topic]]
* {{section link|Another article|Subject}}
{{navigation page}}
The resulting page should look something like this:
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended page.
Navigation links
[edit]You can include navigation links via the wikitext {{navigation page|navlinks}}, which results in this:
- Search Subject name here in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings.
- Start the Subject name here article, using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it.
- Look for pages within Wikipedia that link to this title.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended page.
If you do not wish for readers to see the "Start the Subject name here article" link, add nostart=yes alongside navlinks. This is especially recommended for navigation pages with the same title as an article that has been deleted.
Deletion
[edit]Navigation pages can be listed for discussion at Articles for deletion, or tagged for speedy deletion if they meet one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion. For uncontroversial cases, the simpler process of Proposed deletion is also an option. Navigation pages with no bluelinked entries can be summarily deleted using speedy deletion criterion A3. Navigation pages with only one justifiable bluelinked entry can simply be turned into redirects.
Prior uses of the nomenclature
[edit]Before navigation pages (as described here) were proposed at the village pump in March 2025, the phrase navigation page has been used as far back as early 2003 to colloquially refer to lists.
The term navpage was coined in February 2008 to refer to template pages for navigational boxes—specifically, large navigational boxes with links to more than 100 articles, such as Template:Google LLC and Template:Artiodactyla. In August 2009, the template {{navpages}} was created with such pages in mind, although it saw very few transclusions and was deleted on August 13, 2010 as it was considered unnecessary for handling navboxes and inconvenient for readers.