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Agent0042 Creator - Laconic/24 from Dayton, Ohio Since: Apr, 2009
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#1: Dec 23rd 2010 at 4:05:07 AM

For example - if I'm on Beauty And The Beast (series) and I click on Fridge or WMG, it takes me to pages talking about the Disney film, which obviously isn't what I want. May be an unavoidable problem, but really ought to be fixed if at all possible.

edited 23rd Dec '10 4:05:21 AM by Agent0042

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suedenim Teutonic Tomboy T-Girl from Jet Dream HQ Since: Oct, 2009
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#2: Dec 23rd 2010 at 6:10:33 AM

I've brought this up before, and it does indeed seem to be unavoidable.

The only solution seems to be soft-splitting, as with, e.g., Batman. But there, at least all the variants are related, as opposed to, say, Hitman and Hitman, which are completely unrelated.

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Agent0042 Creator - Laconic/24 from Dayton, Ohio Since: Apr, 2009
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#3: Dec 23rd 2010 at 6:23:44 AM

Yeah, I suppose soft-spltting is good, if each one has examples. If not, could we just add banner to the top saying "These examples are from the Disney film"?

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#4: Dec 23rd 2010 at 6:29:57 AM

Or just put in placeholders for the different works. That'll clear up confusion when someone does want to add an example - they'll know where to put it, instead of thinking "Oh, this page is just for the Disney film."

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Agent0042 Creator - Laconic/24 from Dayton, Ohio Since: Apr, 2009
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#5: Dec 23rd 2010 at 6:45:08 AM

Oh yeah, good idea. That way they don't think they're locked out from adding examples not about the one. Sort of like how we leave blanks on the fanfic recs.

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#6: Dec 23rd 2010 at 6:45:32 AM

Where unrelated works have a namespace collision in the subpages, the solution that's proposed most often, other than a soft split, is to rename one or both articles to disambiguate them, as in Hitman (Film) and Hitman (Game) - then, each article can get its own subpages and the main Hitman article can be a disambiguation page.

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#7: Dec 23rd 2010 at 8:06:17 AM

Sometimes it helps to find out what the longer title is, if it has one, and use that one instead.

TerminusEst13 Since: Jan, 2001
#8: Dec 24th 2010 at 8:09:28 PM

What if there was Fridge/DisneyBeautyAndTheBeast and a Fridge/CBSBeautyAndTheBeast, both of which linked from Fridge/BeautyAndTheBeast?

edited 24th Dec '10 8:09:53 PM by TerminusEst13

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#9: Dec 25th 2010 at 12:22:16 PM

What, like a disambiguation page? That could work. I know some pages have done that.

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Agent0042 Creator - Laconic/24 from Dayton, Ohio Since: Apr, 2009
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#10: Dec 25th 2010 at 1:01:55 PM

Well, it would be a smart idea, except right now the Disney Beuaty and the Beast is the only that actually has any subpage content that I know of. I suppose I could add some for the Beauty and the Beast TV series when I have the chance. I do know a fair bit about it. Or move some of the content on the main page for it that probably needs to be on subpages...

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