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Authority control enables researchers to search more easily for pertinent information on the subject of an article, without needing to disambiguate the subject manually. For example, authority control is used on music articles so that the information in the article can be easily cross-referenced with popular databases.

More generally, [[authority control]] is a method of creating and maintaining index terms for bibliographical material in a library catalog, similar to the [[Dewey Decimal Classification |Dewey Decimal System]]. The links produced by the [[Template: Authority control |authority control template]] on Wikipedia go to authority control data in worldwide library catalogs. As an example, the Wikipedia authority control information for [[Alexander Graham Bell]] looks like this:

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