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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Mar 17th 2011 at 11:06:33 AM

Right now, I have to submit every subpage of a page manually through the custom title tool, whenever I come across a page that wouldn't have been caught by the conversion script, i.e. Sam And Max Freelance Police.

What I believe ought to happen: custom titles set in Main should automatically propagate to sub-pages unless specifically overridden. For example, if the custom title had automatically propagated, I submit a request for WesternAnimation.Sam And Max Freelance Police for its full proper title ("The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police") that overrides only that one page.

edited 17th Mar '11 11:07:34 AM by Elle

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#2: Mar 17th 2011 at 8:19:41 PM

I dislike this idea because of the sheer number of multiple works that share a name space, not all of which have the same punctuation.

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#3: Mar 17th 2011 at 9:33:46 PM

If you figure in stuff like YMM Vs, Moments, Character Sheets, etc, overriding the work subpages where the name is different would still be less work than having to do all of them.

Stratadrake Dragon Writer Since: Oct, 2009
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#4: Mar 19th 2011 at 12:01:59 PM

@shima: I'd consider that a flaw with the current naming conventions and not actual namespaces.

edited 19th Mar '11 12:02:19 PM by Stratadrake

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#5: Mar 19th 2011 at 6:28:13 PM

Very few works share namespaces. And it's already a problem when they do, what with all the subpages a work is assumed to have these days

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#6: Mar 20th 2011 at 12:28:18 PM

There are a lot more works that share name spaces than you'd think. Most of the time they aren't even vaguely related when they do.

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Mar 20th 2011 at 3:29:47 PM

Can you offer examples? I think I misunderstood what you were referring to.

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#8: Mar 20th 2011 at 3:37:45 PM

I do most of the page-typing. I think I have a pretty good idea of what's on the wiki

While there's certainly a decent amount of works stuck in Film/  *

in terms of raw numbers, it's pretty minor compared to the amount of works pages we have in total. And again, with all of the subpages that are expected these days, we're either going to need to move them or allow for dual-namespacing anyway

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#9: Mar 20th 2011 at 5:20:20 PM

^^ DragonForce the band vs. Dragon Force the videogame.

Genesis the band vs. Ge Ne Sis the videogame.

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#10: Mar 20th 2011 at 7:26:40 PM

Or there's the page Monster that's three completely unrelated works. I run into multiple things on different name spaces a lot, but that might just be my editing habits.

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#11: Mar 20th 2011 at 9:24:01 PM

Ok, but that's a number countable on one hand, and we have a pretty short index of pages that are disambiguation, and even fewer of those that under this proposal would need extra work to take care of.

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#12: May 13th 2011 at 4:03:42 PM

Can't we just make it an option with a check-box?

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