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Ask what the reasoning is, and tell them that special symbols don't belong in the URL. Then cutlist the bogus title page.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
While we're at it, we should probably figure out a way to block special symbols from page names in the first place.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
PM sent. Barring nothing else being a problem, do I just migrate everything to Fanfic.Undertale? Should I do Undertale with the author's name?
For the record, the fic is essentially a novelization of the game's Pacifist Route.
This is an unusual case where the fanfic shares a name with the source material.
Perhaps Fanfic.Undertale Novelization, custom titled as "Undertale (Novelization)", would work best?
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
That makes it sound like an official novelization.
Since the fanfic doesn't have any subpage content that could collision with the main work, and it is very closely linked to it, I don't see any problem with putting it under Fanfic/Undertale. Disambiguations are needed when completely unrelated works have the same name; here, the namespace is enough.
What about in the future? Sooner or later the fanfic is likely to acquire subpages.
How about Undertale Fan Novel or something like that? I'm not sure how many characters are supported in a title.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
It's like 60-odd. I ran into that when wanting to migrate an anime page to its official English only to discover the official English was too long.
So Undertale fan novel could work
^^ Limit's 64. What about Fanfic.Undertale Fan Novelization?
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
Just heard back from PM. The original Fanfic.Undertale page was cut out of concern that having it share linkspace with the VideoGame.Undertale page would cause unnecessary confusion. With that cleared up, we're good to work out how to move it. I think Fanfic.Undertale Fan Novelization, with mayb ea custom title of Undertale (Fan Novelization) or something, may be a good way to do it barring a better suggestion or other preference.
^ Alright. Who's going to recreate the page?
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
I can get it a bit later today, once I'm home from work. Just wanted to reconfirm that "fan novelization" was our consensus and that there was no objection to that one
I don't see any objections.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
All righty, Fanfic.Undertale Fan Novelization has been made. Running into an issue with indexing on Video Games, though. The stories right before and after it work fine, but the index bar isn't showing up on this fic in particular.
Not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask, but figure if it's not I can get pointed to it:
I've got Undertale (Fan Novelization) up and running, done a tiny bit of crosswicking as time and inclination allow, but one thing I'm having trouble with is Indexing. I listed it in Fanfic.Video Games, and other entries on that page index fine, but this one won't. I've tried null edits on both sides of the equation without luck. Should this be reported in a tech thread or is it something I can take care of?
The only thing I can think of is that Fanfic.Video Games is listed as a subpage instead of an index? Did it used to be an index and now won't do it since I added this after it was a sub page?
Edited by sgamer82
A page can be an index and another type of page, as long as the "does indexing" box is checked. Somehow that box got unchecked for Fanfic.Video Games. I edited the page type and it's working now.
Just checked and the indexing is working now thanks. Looks like this is all wrapped up but for a little crosswicking.
Came across this fanfic
while looking at FanficRecs.Undertale. It had a few issues with how tropes were linked and spoiler tagged which I've largely fixed. The big issue is that when I look at the URL it reads as Fanfic/Undertale_, and the _ gets in the way of linking it in an index. it just shows up as Fanfic/{{Undertale_}}. The actual Fanfic.Undertale was cut by a troper RedCoral who is also the main editor on the fanfic page, with the cut reason being "error"
I sent Coral a PM for indexing before noticing this issue so I was seeking advice on how to proceed. Should I move it to Fanfic.Undertale in full so it can be linked/crosswicked/indexed properly? Should I send a more specific PM to RedCoral before I do such a thing as a just-in-case to double check the reasoning?