This is a project to ensure that for each pair of articles with two easily confusible names or alternate spellings/transliterations of the same name both articles have a hatnote to each other. It started in February 2026 as a release of pent-up frustration about Wikipedia’s bad handling of Arabic names that left articles basically impossible to find (which I originally noticed while working on WP:PDAB), and has since been extended to cover many other unrelated uses.
The AWB run that links to this page takes one of the below pairings and adds a hatnote to the relevant article, using the short description of that article in a {{for}} if possible, or a {{distinguish}} if the article has no shortdesc or one that wouldn’t be a useful disambiguating qualifier
Done
- “Anne” <-> “Ann”
- “Abdulla” <-> “Abdullah” <-> “Abdalla” <-> “Abdallah”
- “Hussain” <-> “Hossain” <-> “Husain” <-> “Hosain” <-> “Hussein” <-> “Hossein” <-> “Husein” <-> “Hosein” <-> “Hoseyn” <-> “Husayn” <-> “Huseyn”
- “Rahman” <-> “Rehman”
- “Hassan” <-> “Hasan”
- “Ahmad” <-> “Ahmed”
- “Abdur” <-> “Abdul” <-> “Abdus” <-> “Abdush” <-> “Abdun” (See Abdul#Arabic_grammar)
- “Md.” <-> (empty string) – See User:Pppery/Names/Md.
- “Anowar” <-> “Anwar”
- “Yusuf” <-> “Yousef” <-> “Yousif” <-> “Youssef” <-> “Youssif” <-> “Yousuf” <-> “Yoosuf” <-> “Yusef”
- “Gholam” <-> “Golam” <-> “Ghulam” <-> “Gulam”
- “Mahmud” <-> “Mahmood” <-> “Mahmoud” <-> “Mahmud”<-> “Mahmut” <-> “Mehmood” <-> “Mehmud”
- “Shahzad” <-> “Shehzad”
- “Muhammad” <-> “Muhammed” <-> “Muhamad” <-> “Muhamed” <-> “Mohammed” <-> “Mohammed” <-> “Mohamed” <-> “Mohamed” <-> “MD” <-> “Md.” <-> “Md”
- “Reed” <-> “Reid” <-> “Read” <-> “Reade” <-> “Rede”
- “Jesus” <-> “Jesús”
- “Hernandez” <-> “Hernández”
- “Ana” <-> “Anna”
- “Gomez” <-> “Gómez”
- “Maria” <-> “María”
- “Guzman” <-> “Guzmán”
- “Eliot” <-> “Elliot” <-> “Elliott”