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 Another good reason to disambiguate by a named reality is the case of the historical figure. Often, realities become "alternative" because someone famous is said to have done something different than what they did in our "known" universe. The famous person may not even make an appearance in the story, so you can't use the story name as a dab term.
-A good example is [[Adolf Hitler (Inferno Earth)]].  He doesn't exactly ''appear'' in the book ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'', but his legend on [[Inferno Earth]] is described.  A name like [[Adolf Hitler (The Face of the Enemy)]] wouldn't make nearly the common sense of [[Adolf Hitler (Inferno Earth)]].
+A good example is [[Adolf Hitler (Inferno Earth)]].  He doesn't exactly ''appear'' in the book ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'', but his legend on [[Inferno Earth]] is described.  A name like ''Adolf Hitler (The Face of the Enemy)'' wouldn't make nearly the common sense of [[Adolf Hitler (Inferno Earth)]].
 In order to make these pages easily discoverable by other readers, it's important to stick to one term to describe all people from a certain reality.  People from the main [[DWU]] reality either have no disambiguation term (if their name is sufficiently unique), or are disambiguated by the name of the first adventure in which they're seen.
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 Finding an appropriate universe name isn't easy.  On rare occasion, the script will offer it up. "Pete's World" is the perfect case in point.  The [[Tenth Doctor]] actually says it in the script, so that's what we go with.
-On other occasions, the best we can do is to make a logical in-universe inference.  Hence [[Inferno Earth]] is based not upon the story ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', but rather the in-universe concept that gives the story its name: the [[Inferno Project]].  We give it that name because the Doctor accessed that universe ''via'' the Inferno Project itself.
+On other occasions, the best we can do is to make a logical in-universe inference.  Hence, [[Inferno Earth]] is based not upon the story ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', but rather the in-universe concept that gives the story its name: the [[Inferno Project]].  We give it that name because the Doctor accessed that universe ''via'' the Inferno Project itself.
 You should try to base the name on some sort of in-universe concept where at all possible, so that the name can be used in articles without fear of introducing an out-of-universe concept.
 If you're really stuck trying to figure out a good, in-universe name, ask for naming help at [[Board:The Panopticon]], or to grab an [[admin]].  Note, though, that there may be some cases when we have so little information about a particular alternate dimension that we may have to resort to out-of-universe nomenclature.