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|style="Background-color:#ffc8c8;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| 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.<ref>The obvious exception to the rule is something like [[Twilight of the Gods (MA)|''Twilight of the Gods'']] which ''should'' use the disambig (MA novel) to distinguish it from the Bernice Summerfield novel of the same name, which should use (BNA novel). The "novel" might seem superfluous, but it helps readers unfamiliar with these rather obscure corners of the DWU to immediately recognize they're novels. ''Any'' use of one of our wiki's prefixes should be followed by a word that will help any user to know instantly which medium the work is in.</ref> | |style="Background-color:#ffc8c8;border-bottom:1px solid #b0b0b0;"| 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.<ref>The obvious exception to the rule is something like [[Twilight of the Gods (MA novel)|''Twilight of the Gods'']] which ''should'' use the disambig (MA novel) to distinguish it from the Bernice Summerfield novel of the same name, which should use (BNA novel). The "novel" might seem superfluous, but it helps readers unfamiliar with these rather obscure corners of the DWU to immediately recognize they're novels. ''Any'' use of one of our wiki's prefixes should be followed by a word that will help any user to know instantly which medium the work is in.</ref> | ||
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This list of disambiguation terms represents best practices with respect to page titling of terms that may have multiple distinct uses on this wiki. A disambiguation term is that part of the title which appears in parentheses. Thus, in the oft-cited example, Castrovalva (TV story), the disambiguation term is "TV story". In order to give readers, editors, sophisticated code usages and bots an easy time finding particular pages, it's necessary for similar items to always use the same disambiguation term — except for the special cases outlined below. In other words, if a televised story has the same name as something else in the Doctor Who universe, then it should always be disambiguated with "TV story" and not "episode" or "television" or "television story".
When to disambiguate
Our broader disambiguation policy should be consulted first, before proceeding further with this document.
List of terms
The following terms should always be used:
| Do use | When you want to title | Don't use |
|---|---|---|
| (TV story) | televised narratives of any length | (episode), (television story), (television)[1] |
| (audio) | any sort of audio release, be it narrative, documentary or music | (audio story), (audio release) |
| (novel) | out-of-universe discussion about a DWU novel; e.g. Hope (novel) | 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.[2] |
| (book) | in-universe discussion about books within the DWU; this matches the in-universe category, books | very rarely used, as most in-universe books, like A Christmas Carol have precedence, and therefore don't require disambiguation |
| (comic story) | any story that uses sequential art, of any length up to, but excluding the graphic novel | (comic), (comic strip) |
| (graphic novel) to actually title all pages about book-length comics; however, in the case of American-made products, the disambig (trade paperback) should be used as a redirect | 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.[3] | |
| (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 | |
| (documentary) | any sort of video documentary | |
| (CON episode) | Doctor Who Confidential episodes | (Doctor Who Confidential episode) |
| (species) | in-universe species | (race) should be avoided, as it has dual meanings |
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