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: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}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">22:43: Sat 01 Oct 2011 </span> | :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}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">22:43: Sat 01 Oct 2011 </span> | ||
::I see. Considering how many story pages need to be titled with (TV story), then I guess uniforming pages would be an ideal advance. {{User:D0ct0r11/sig}} 22:57 Sat 10 Oct 2011 | ::I see. Considering how many story pages need to be titled with (TV story), then I guess uniforming pages would be an ideal advance. {{User:D0ct0r11/sig}} 22:57 Sat 10 Oct 2011 | ||
:::Yeah, I just did a count of a single range, the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]], and that's running at 25% of the titles needing disambiguation. That's too high a percentage, I think, to be managed on a case-by-case basis. In fact the number would be even higher, save for some near misses, like ''[[Byzantium!]]'', which is saved from disambiguation only by an exclamation point. And, technically, over half the television episodes need disambiguation because of the presence of a novelisation. According to our disambig policy, we've no cause to preference the TV story over the novelisation in terms of disambiguation. Two things with the same name in different media should ''both'' be disambiguated. Yes, a lot of the early novelisations have the fomat ''Doctor Who and the . . . ''. But a lot of novelisations have exactly the same name as the corresponding serial. I haven't done the actual count, but I feel certain that once you took into consideration novelisations ''and'' in-universe "things of the same name", over 50% of all classic series titles would need disambiguation. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">23:05: Sat 01 Oct 2011 </span> | |||
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