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starofjusticev21 Since: Oct, 2011
#1: Nov 18th 2022 at 6:17:45 AM

Good morning, I was hoping to get some help with something. I'm trying to create a page for an entry in the Endless Quest book series, which was TSR's Gamebook line. One of the books was titled King's Quest, but it has nothing to do with the PC game series of the same name. Which also has its own Literature page for novels spun off from the PC games. I was trying to make a page with a title like "King's Quest (Endless Quest)" to differentiate, but it doesn't seem to work. Could anyone please advise?

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#2: Nov 18th 2022 at 7:37:42 AM

Generally the policy is to separate based on publication date of possible, so it'd be King's Quest (1984).

Are you getting the message "Sorry, the groupname and title must start with a letter and cannot contain special characters." when you try to make the page?

starofjusticev21 Since: Oct, 2011
#3: Nov 18th 2022 at 8:54:16 AM

No, I just keep seeing it make a link to the existing King's Quest page and the paranthesized content being in plain text.

Edited by starofjusticev21 on Nov 18th 2022 at 8:55:06 AM

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#4: Nov 18th 2022 at 8:59:37 AM

Could you provide a link to the page you're trying to make?

starofjusticev21 Since: Oct, 2011
#5: Nov 18th 2022 at 9:07:44 AM

Sorry, it is saying "Sorry, the groupname and title must start with a letter and cannot contain special characters" when I try to start that page, yes.

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#6: Nov 18th 2022 at 9:17:30 AM

Okay, the issue is you can't make the page with parentheses in the url, you have to add them in later with a custom title. (See How to Make a Custom Title.) So make the page at Literature.Kings Quest 1984 (or however you're disambiguating it), then submit a custom title for it.

crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
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#7: Nov 18th 2022 at 7:12:12 PM

I handled the custom title request. Remember to add the gamebooks to all relevant indexes, not just the single-medium franchise page.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#8: Nov 26th 2022 at 4:51:27 PM

Generally the policy is to separate based on publication date of possible, so it'd be King's Quest (1984).

I don't believe there is such a policy. I think Kings Quest Endless Quest would have been just fine.

(Disambiguation threads: [1] [2])

Edited by Twiddler on Nov 26th 2022 at 4:52:52 AM

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