So there is this category of Wikipedia pages called Disambiguation. These pages are available to help save us all from humiliating ourselves by mistaking adductor canals for adductor muscles or Addison the city in South Dakota for Addison the character from Grey's Anatomy. I discovered, while browsing, an intriguing list of ambiguous numbers (0-0-0, 2/135, 17 Days), a page for Russia disambiguation (with no items listed), and a list of disambiguation pages in need of cleanup (swing, four to the floor, American).
The reason I came across this WikiCult of disambiguety was... well, at a party last week an Indian friend told me his family was Jain(ist?). I thought that was funny because my teaching partner's name is Jane. So I looked it up to see just what a religion with her name might promote. Nirvana apparently. But being as multi-faceted a word as Nirvana is, there was neccessary disambiguifying. It technically can mean...
A Spanish pop song.
A grunge band from Seattle, WA.
The Pali word meaning "blowing out" the fires of greed, hate, delusion.
Formerly a genus of butterflies. Now a genus of leafhoppers.
The title of an Italian science fiction movie.
And the most relevant award goes to... The Outer Plane of Dungeons and Dragons.
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