विकिपीडिया:ऑथारिटी कंट्रोल
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Authority Control is a method used to assign an unique identifier to each topic, which, like Wikipedia's own disambiguation process and redirects, is critical for subjects that either have the same name but refer to different topics, like differentiating between John Smith (professor) and John Smith (English poet), or subjects that have different names but refer to the same topic, like Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm.
The {{Authority control}} template links Wikipedia articles (and user pages) to the corresponding entries in library catalogs of national libraries and other authority files all over the world. The entries typically correspond to people, book titles, and similar well-defined entities.
मई 2015 तक ले [update], the English Wikipedia has over 352,000 articles tagged with {{Authority control}}.