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::It's no exaggeration to say that you need a scorecard to remember how the story pages are titled. Now, you might not think so if you '''only''' consider television. Long term editors, at least, tend to have memorised which TV story titles are disambiguated and which aren't. I don't think it makes too much immediate sense to newer editors, but people still have a pretty good chance of having seen the episodes in question. The situation is '''much worse''' with other media, however. I'm constantly finding articles which need to be disambiguated because the people who started the article hadn't actually read or heard the story, so they had no idea that — to take an example from yesterday's bot work — [[Red]] is a thing in the DWU, which is the focus of [[Red (audio story)]]. | ::It's no exaggeration to say that you need a scorecard to remember how the story pages are titled. Now, you might not think so if you '''only''' consider television. Long term editors, at least, tend to have memorised which TV story titles are disambiguated and which aren't. I don't think it makes too much immediate sense to newer editors, but people still have a pretty good chance of having seen the episodes in question. The situation is '''much worse''' with other media, however. I'm constantly finding articles which need to be disambiguated because the people who started the article hadn't actually read or heard the story, so they had no idea that — to take an example from yesterday's bot work — [[Red]] is a thing in the DWU, which is the focus of [[Red (audio story)]]. | ||
::When you look at the '''entirety''' of the story titling chore on this wiki, the need for automatic disambiguation is much more profound. And it needn't change the way we write articles. People think that if we go to an all-disambiguated format that we're going to increase the number of keystrokes necessary to refer to a story. '''But that absolutely needn't be so.''' For instance, we'd formally change the name of An Unearthly Child to [[An Unearthly Child (TV story)]]. But you'd still be able to link to [[An Unearthly Child]], because the act of moving would leave a redirect behind. This proposed system would in fact be no different to the current system, except in terms of what appeared on top of story pages. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} | ::When you look at the '''entirety''' of the story titling chore on this wiki, the need for automatic disambiguation is much more profound. And it needn't change the way we write articles. People think that if we go to an all-disambiguated format that we're going to increase the number of keystrokes necessary to refer to a story. '''But that absolutely needn't be so.''' For instance, we'd formally change the name of An Unearthly Child to [[An Unearthly Child (TV story)]]. But you'd still be able to link to [[An Unearthly Child]], because the act of moving would leave a redirect behind. This proposed system would in fact be no different to the current system, except in terms of what appeared on top of story pages. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}15:19: Sat 01 Oct 2011 </span> | ||
:::By the way, if you're frustrated by how we've handled this page's creation, and would like to change how we handle all this, please go to [[Forum:Story names should be automatically disambiguated]] and vote to change the [[tardis:disambiguation policy|disambiguation policy]]. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} | :::By the way, if you're frustrated by how we've handled this page's creation, and would like to change how we handle all this, please go to [[Forum:Story names should be automatically disambiguated]] and vote to change the [[tardis:disambiguation policy|disambiguation policy]]. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}16:18: Sat 01 Oct 2011 </span> | ||
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