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McGuffin

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A wiki page that talks about 2 very different things is called a "McGuffin" (or sometimes a "dual-purpose page").

A few wiki, such as BookShelved?, encourage people to use McGuffins.

Other wiki, such as C2, encourage people to split up pages that talk about more than one thing, creating pages with ever-more-specific names.

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A few examples of dual-purpose pages include: