Title is hijacked for a work: Series.Merlin

I tweaked the description on the sandbox page. Let me know what you think.

Looks good to me. Are we ready to switch it in?

For the bit on Nimue's trickery you can reference the Merlin and Nimue trope — and that article could use a link to Merlin once it's swapped in. The link to Antichrist goes to the Lars Von Trier film, which is probably not what you want.

edited 23rd Jan '11 9:12:21 PM by Camacan

You can edit it yourself - it's still part of the wiki. But I'll go ahead and make those suggested changes.

EDIT: Also, going to make a thread to move AntiChrist to the Film namespace and make that a redirect to The AntiChrist.

edited 24th Jan '11 6:03:34 AM by ccoa

I have a practical question.

If the Current Merlin is moved to Series.Merlin, will the icons for the specific subpages that are now created as Namespace.Merlin appear in both the Series page and in the Main page?

If so, is there a way to create these subpages in such a way that the icons only appear in the Series page? Something like Series.Namespace.Merlin?

As long as the page types are set correctly then icons should only show up on the work page, I believe.

edited 24th Jan '11 6:36:34 AM by ccoa

Should we not put the info on the character of Merlin under Useful Notes, and leave the Main Merlin article for a disambiguation page?

Is it really a useful note, though? Merlin is such a common stock character he's a trope on his own, isn't he?

I have to agree. Merlin is a trope of his own, appearing or being mentioned in works that do not otherwise feature the Arthurian myths.

Quest For Glory and Harry Potter being two examples.

& That's a good point, as prevalent as he is he probably should qualify.

edited 29th Jan '11 6:07:56 PM by Meeble

Using the main namespace for the character and a list of things he's shown up in.

I added a short list of works to the sandbox page.

Happy with it.

Okay, swapped over and wicks fixed. Now all we have to do is decide what to do with Film.Merlin, which is for the 1998 miniseries.

I think we should put it in either Merlin-1998 or Series.Merlin-1998.

Do we have an "official" stance on how to append the year? I've seen with a space, with a dash, and with parens.

edited 1st Feb '11 10:37:01 AM by ccoa

Standard worldwide practise for dates is with parentheses but ptitles are a pain and you'd need a redirect from another form anyway. Spaces are inappropriate because...no spaces because of Space1999, is there a way to work a pun out of that? No. Anyway, Space1999, Dracula2000: works use it too often. So, I'd settle of hyphenation.

That's what we did with V-2009, so there's that precedent.

You know, I swapped the page and started on the wicks, and then I noticed that wikipedia lists the 1998 miniseries as a film. Now I'm not sure which is the better classification.

I wouldn't worry: the very first line of their main text calls it a television miniseries. IMBd classifiies it as: (TV mini-series 1998).

The second line calls it a film, though. :P

Still, I will continue cleaning wicks.

Yeah it is a bit unclear how they've written it up. At 182 min, cut into three hour long episodes it's one of those works where they allow for flexibility in presentation: the TV network can show it as a series or a film. Handy for the schedulers.

With IMBd calling it a miniseries, go with that.

edited 4th Feb '11 7:54:10 PM by Camacan

You forgot commercials. It was two nights of two hours each. I was there; I remember.

Good point. Only a TV movie for the noncommerical networks. Like anyone's gonna produce just for that market. The Other Wiki is just wrong, it's a mini-series.

(Little known fact: Sam Neill is in ever second film made since 1995. When he isn't being Hugo Weaving.)

edited 5th Feb '11 5:53:33 AM by Camacan