Ice Hockey Wiki:Homonymy page

An Homonymy page is a page done so that there is no possible confusion about teams, leagues or players that have the same names. When you realize that two or more players, leagues or teams, past or present, have the same name, then the root article (i.e. the article with the common name of all the duplicate elements) should become an homonymy page.

Creating an homonymy page out of a blank article
Let's take for an exemple the name Artem Anisimov. You found out that in Russia, there are two players wearing that name; the first is a defenceman born in 1976, the second is a centre born in 1988, and that the IHW had no article for either of these. So, you will create the page Artem Anisimov and use the following form:

Several players are named Artem Anisimov: * For the Russian defenceman, please see Artem Anisimov (1976). * For the Russian centre who took part in the 2007 World Junior Championship, please see Artem Anisimov (1988).

Please note that the name of the articles of each player is made according to the rules found in the Manual of style.

Creating an homonymy page out of an already existing article
Let's suppose a strong article has been built over time about a fictive team called the Montreal Eagles. After maybe a year, someone finds out that another minor pro team also wore that name for twenty seasons, from 1938 to 1958. Now this is a bit trickier. Will the whole Montreal Eagles article be erased and copied to another article following the rules of the Manual of style so that the page "Montreal Eagles" is changed into an homonymy page? The answer is: it depends. If the Montreal Eagles are/were a well established team and that the minor pro one only lasted a couple of seasons, it's pointless. If the Eagles of the root article were an NHL team, so would it be. As a general rule, if one sense of the word eclipses the other, the homonymy page is pointless; a header of the format:

''For the article about the minor pro team, please see Montreal Eagles (EHL).

Don't forget the horizontal bar just under the note to separate it from the article. If, however, the second Eagles team had been a well-established AHL team for some 10 or 20 years by exemple, then an homonymy page would become a must. To create a homonymy page out of an already existing article, help of the admins is required, as you can't only transfer the text of the article but also its history; this is a move that can only be performed by wiki admins.