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|style="background-color:#a3feba;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (graphic novel) | |style="background-color:#a3feba;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (graphic novel) | ||
|style="border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| any sort of collected edition of sequential art, or sequential art which was ''originally'' published without the use of staples, or, if bound with staples, at a length over 47 pages. For the sake of consistency, we shall adopt the British definition of graphic novel for the main titles of pages.<ref>The term "graphic novel" has tremendous variability, especially as between American and British use. As a purely arbitrary matter, all things which might be considered trade paperbacks or collected editions shall be disambiguated "(graphic novel)". Yes, technically, we should be using the American "trade paperback" to disambig IDW output, but simplicity wins over accuracy in this case. We need everything disambiguated the same way. </ref> | |style="border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| any sort of collected edition of sequential art, or sequential art which was ''originally'' published without the use of staples, or, if bound with staples, at a length over 47 pages. For the sake of consistency, we shall adopt the British definition of graphic novel for the main titles of pages.<ref>The term "graphic novel" has tremendous variability, especially as between American and British use. As a purely arbitrary matter, all things which might be considered trade paperbacks or collected editions shall be disambiguated "(graphic novel)". Yes, technically, we should be using the American "trade paperback" to disambig IDW output, but simplicity wins over accuracy in this case. We need everything disambiguated the same way. </ref> | ||
|style="Background-color:#ffc8c8;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| | |style="Background-color:#ffc8c8;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (book), (comic book), (hardback) | ||
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|style="background-color:#a3feba;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (omnibus) | |style="background-color:#a3feba;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (omnibus) | ||
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|style="background-color:#a3feba;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (short story) | |style="background-color:#a3feba;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (short story) | ||
|style="border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| out-of-universe articles about DWU short stories | |style="border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| out-of-universe articles about DWU short stories | ||
|style="background-color:#ffc8c8;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| | |style="background-color:#ffc8c8;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (prose story), (novella) | ||
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|style="background-color:#a3feba;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (documentary)<ref name="NECESSARY" /> | |style="background-color:#a3feba;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (documentary)<ref name="NECESSARY" /> | ||
|style="border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| any sort of ''video'' documentary | |style="border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| any sort of ''video'' documentary | ||
|style="background-color:#ffc8c8;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| | |style="background-color:#ffc8c8;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (BTS feature), (featurette) | ||
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|style="background-color:#a3feba;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (home video) | |style="background-color:#a3feba;color:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| (home video) |
Revision as of 20:14, 24 April 2022
Disambiguating other realities → Disambiguating story titles → Disambiguating in-universe counterparts → Disambiguation term |
A disambiguation term or dab term is the bit of a page title which is in parentheses. In the page title Castrovalva (TV story), the dab term is (TV story). For the benefit of your fellow editors and readers, it's important that these terms be consistently applied. It also greatly helps in the writing of templates that have to handle story titles, as well as robotic maintenance of the wiki, if the same dab terms are used to describe the same types of things.
The chart below summarises the dab terms which we use across the site.
Do use | When you want to title | Don't use |
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(TV story) | televised narratives of any length[1] | (episode), (television story), (television)[2] |
(audio story) | any sort of audio narrative, regardless of length | (audio), (audio release), (radio play) |
(novel) | because there are no hard-and-fast definitions distinguishing between a children's book, novella and a novel, the dab term (novel) is to be used for any narrative work of prose fiction presented as a single, cover-to-cover story. The length of this fiction is not a factor in disambiguating it with (novel) . Examples: K9 and the Time Trap (novel), Blood and Hope (novel), History 101 (novel).[3]
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any term which uses the book series along with the word novel, like (EDA novel), (NSA novel) or the like — except when there is more than one novel series to use the title.[4] |
(book) (film)[5] |
in-universe discussion about books and films within the DWU; this matches the in-universe category, books and films | (novel) or other terms used to dab real-world stories |
(comic story) | any story that uses sequential art, of any length up to, and including the original graphic novel[6] | (comic), (comic strip) |
(graphic novel) | any sort of collected edition of sequential art, or sequential art which was originally published without the use of staples, or, if bound with staples, at a length over 47 pages. For the sake of consistency, we shall adopt the British definition of graphic novel for the main titles of pages.[7] | (book), (comic book), (hardback) |
(omnibus) | when you want to title a page discussing an omnibus. The most likely use of this is with IDW products. IDW omnibuses are collections of IDW trade paperbacks/graphic novels, which themselves collect IDW comic stories. | (omnibus edition), (IDW omnibus), (Pinnacle omnibus) |
(short story) | out-of-universe articles about DWU short stories | (prose story), (novella) |
(documentary)[5] | any sort of video documentary | (BTS feature), (featurette) |
(home video) | any VHS or DVD releases of fictional narratives, regardless of production company | (video), (TV story), (DVD story), (VHS story), (BBV video), (RP video), etc. |
(CON episode) | Doctor Who Confidential episodes | (Doctor Who Confidential episode) |
(DWE episode) | Doctor Who Extra episodes | (Doctor Who Extra episode) |
(webcast) | Any video work released through the Internet, unless it is better described as a "(documentary)".[8] | (video), (TV story), (web video) |
(video game) | Any video games covered by the Wiki, whether they are online games or console releases. | (game), (online game) |
(game) | Any games other than video that are covered by this Wiki, including board games, tabletop role-playing games, and games within annuals. | (board game), (RPG game), (annual game) |
(feature)[5] | Non-narrative fiction released as part of a wider publication (such as a DWM issue or annual). | (short story), (reference piece), (profile) |
(species)[5] | In-universe species | (race) should be avoided, as it has dual meanings |
(mythology)[5] | Mythological figures and concepts | (god), (goddess), (deity) and so on should be avoided; the former two are gendered, and the latter would only controversially apply to some figures like the Archangel Michael]], so something broader is preferable.[9] |
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