Forum:Story names should be automatically disambiguated: Difference between revisions

Forum:Story names should be automatically disambiguated (edit)

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 ==I'm just not sure about this==
 While I do think it would be great to see uniformed page titles, I also feel it may be unneeded. It could look quite messy to have a page title such as ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)]]'' when it's not necessary. Out of the two hundred and something TV story pages, there can't be ''that'' many that need to be differentiated from other media with the same name. I'm leaning towards voting for this at the moment ([[Forum:Page Creation time|considering how it would beneficial]]), but I'm not certain. {{User:D0ct0r11/sig}} 22:36 Sat 10 Oct 2011
+:I think you're misunderstanding the benefit here.  It's not about differentiating '''from other media'''.  It's about differentiating from in-universe '''things'''.  Our current policy requires you to know that there is a thing called ''The Pandorica Opens'' or Paradise Towers, or Castrovalva within the DWU, in order to properly link to the story.  The cases where you need disambiguation are ''quite'' common, because stories are often titled around a concept within the episode.  You're talking about 30=40% of all stories ''need'' disambiguation.  (Whether they currently are disambiguated is a different matter.) {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}&nbsp;<span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">22:43: Sat&nbsp;01 Oct 2011&nbsp;</span>
 ==Discussion==