Getting to that page on the Wikipedia where you discover a word you like - a name you thought you knew - something you might have suspected was unique - was not - has other meanings. Isn't a homonym but you might have thought so. Disambiguation! "The process of identifying which meaning of a word is used in context."
There's not a synonym for synonym*, palindrome isn't a palindrome**, & onomatopoeia isn't a sound naming itself. But disambiguation has a disambiguation page on Wikipedia. Which somehow seems appropriate.
If there were a page for Self Help Radio on Wikipedia (which there isn't), it would probably be on the disambiguation page for "self-help radio" (also not a page). & "self-help radio" might be on a separate page of different types of radio, maybe kinds of "talk radio" (which does have a page but doesn't mention self-help radio).
It's late. You're just looking for information. Maybe just curious. Maybe you made a bet. You discover there's some disambiguation. So you look some more.
*Some smarty-pants think differently.
**The palindrome of Bolton, by the way, is not "Notlob."
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