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

::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}}&nbsp;<span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">23:05: Sat&nbsp;01 Oct 2011&nbsp;</span>

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