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Although as a quick note, I suppose the added complexity is when a story is ''supposed'' to exist in-universe, such as with [[Who Killed Kennedy]] vs [[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)]] and basically any story that pretends it's a diary or journal (like ''Who Discovers''). I guess my point is that it's a very complex subject and we have no official policy that I can find on when all this is supposed to happen. [[User:OttselSpy25|OS25]][[User Talk:OttselSpy25|🤙☎️]] 19:33, 20 February 2023 (UTC) | Although as a quick note, I suppose the added complexity is when a story is ''supposed'' to exist in-universe, such as with [[Who Killed Kennedy]] vs [[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)]] and basically any story that pretends it's a diary or journal (like ''Who Discovers''). I guess my point is that it's a very complex subject and we have no official policy that I can find on when all this is supposed to happen. [[User:OttselSpy25|OS25]][[User Talk:OttselSpy25|🤙☎️]] 19:33, 20 February 2023 (UTC) | ||
:Generally, I agree with Epsilon's proposal of disambiguating with (in-universe ''thing''). But, there's also the issue of alternate realities. In-universe here means the {{w|fictional universe}} as a whole, which covers multiple "universes" as in realities. If you take a look at [[Tom Baker (disambiguation)]], you can see that there are quite a few instances of Tom Baker from both the Doctor's home universe and several others. However, per [[T:MERGE]], these can easily be covered on an "Alternate realities" section of [[Tom Baker (in-universe actor)]]. In fact, I think this makes things significantly easier to cover and to understand, because it covers ''all'' "in-universe" instances of the subject together, as they're all derived from the same thing in the real world. Arguably, this could be extended to something like ''The Seeds of Doom'', where all in-universe references are covered together, but a book by [[Sarah Jane Smith]] is different from an in-universe version of the serial, so I think they should stay separate— and this is why I prefer Epsilon's more specific approach. In general, I think we should not shy away from more specific disambiguation terms, ''if'' they are more useful. | |||
:Additionally, I think a "dab"-less version of any real-world story, series, etc should almost always redirect to the real world page, and having an in-universe disambiguation term should be standard on such pages. Whether it's through searching or linking, 99% of the time the link is meant to go to the real-world page. [[User:Chubby Potato|Chubby Potato]] [[User talk:Chubby Potato|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:06, 20 February 2023 (UTC) | |||
