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* Lastly, my question. The concrete proposal, italicized in the OP, is that "Honourifics are preferred over story dabs when disambiguation is necessary". I like this proposal for the reasons [[User:OttselSpy25|OS25]] notes above. But many of the specific instances listed seem to go beyond that principle: for instance, no disambiguation is needed at [[Vastra]], so why would we be moving it to [[Madame Vastra]]? (For the record, I am opposed to that specific suggestion.) So could we narrow down what the scope of this thread is, exactly? | * Lastly, my question. The concrete proposal, italicized in the OP, is that "Honourifics are preferred over story dabs when disambiguation is necessary". I like this proposal for the reasons [[User:OttselSpy25|OS25]] notes above. But many of the specific instances listed seem to go beyond that principle: for instance, no disambiguation is needed at [[Vastra]], so why would we be moving it to [[Madame Vastra]]? (For the record, I am opposed to that specific suggestion.) So could we narrow down what the scope of this thread is, exactly? | ||
– [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 19:23, 26 May 2023 (UTC) | – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 19:23, 26 May 2023 (UTC) | ||
: That's very good Nate! In theory I like that a lot. But I do think it will get silly eventually. For instance, in ''[[Search for the Doctor (novel)|Search for the Doctor]]'' there's a group of characters in one "chapter" named Captain Evans, Navigator Grundy and Engineer Floyd. Wouldn't it be a little weird to have [[Captain Evans]] on this one page for a character who's eaten by fish just a couple pages later? I think the policy makes more sense for characters who generally are significant, but for side characters it starts to feel a little silly. [[User:OttselSpy25|OS25]][[User Talk:OttselSpy25|🤙☎️]] 19:27, 26 May 2023 (UTC) | |||