Making disambigs for works that share names...

I'd do Music.The Game Rapper for Music.The Game

Or maybe just Music.Game (currently a redirect to Music.The Game), which isn't colliding with anything? His page says he "eventually dropped the "The" sometime in the early 2010s". But Wikipedia still uses "The Game". As does his official Facebook account. And his most recent album release uses "The Game" on the cover. And the media is still referring to him as The Game.

Okay yeah, I'd go with Music.The Game Rapper

Edited by Twiddler on Jun 2nd 2022 at 2:31:52 AM

How would I go about creating the page "Black Comedy (Theatre)" to replace my page Black Comedy? I'm just stuck on how to get the brackets in the page name. Is it just a Wiki Words edit of Black Comedy Theatre?

Edited by Azorius24 on Jun 2nd 2022 at 12:10:11 PM

How to Make a Custom Title

I thoguht we don't prefer to disambiguate via medium (I assume this is to get out of Main.Black Comedy). I would do Theatre.Black Comedy Peter Shaffer or Theatre.Black Comedy 1965

That's correct. Don't duplicate the namespace as disambiguation unless you have no other option.

I recently created a page for the video game Thor: God of Thunder and preemptively added a "2011" to it to separate it from the Jason Aaron comic of the same name.

However, since the comic came out one year after the game and is therefore not the first work to have that title, should it be changed to Thor: God of Thunder (2012) to better disambiguate it?

Edited by chasemaddigan on Jun 3rd 2022 at 9:10:51 AM

Might as well. Neither is an adaptation of the other (both are separate versions of Marvel's Thor as a whole), so both should be disambiguated.

Edited by bwburke94 on Jun 4th 2022 at 8:53:18 AM

A few years ago, I created the page for the comic Aria that has nothing to do with the more famous manga. Should I move it to Aria (1979) (year of the first publication in magazine) or Aria 1982 (release of the first volume)?

I'd go with Aria (1979) because that was when the comic was first published.

I much prefer 1979 for its debut year.

VideoGame.Overlord is the only thing using the base name. Do we go by Year like most things, or Overlord Series or something else?

I remember we decided to not disambiguate that since it's for an entire series while the rest are individual works.

With Overlord 2012 getting a video game adaptation, that reasoning doesn't apply anymore.

Those adaptations don't seem to share the name "Overlord", though, at least not by itself.

I moved Thor: God of Thunder to its new namespace and updated all the wicks, so hopefully I did everything right.

Looks great. Just one thing, it's the page title that was changed, not the namespace. The namespace in this case is ComicBook

I learned a series I follow, Beast Tamer And The Cat Girl is getting an Anime adaptation advertised in English under the title Beast Tamer.

Given the sheer genericness of this title would it be better to get ahead of the disambig race by moving content to LightNovel.Beast Tamer 2022 (or whatever year the LN actually started, I'd have to check)?

Edited by sgamer82 on Jun 10th 2022 at 8:31:26 AM

I haven't been able to find any other work named Beast Tamer.

Hence "get ahead of the race". I was honestly surprised we didn't have something called Beast Tamer already, given it seems a common enough phrase, so I wanted to get an additional opinion or two before making any big moves on whether it would be better to disambig now so it isn't a potential issue later.

Edited by sgamer82 on Jun 10th 2022 at 8:37:04 AM

I guess it's more common as episode titles, than work titles, its vagueness seems to work against it as a common title?

Episode: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Beast_Tamer

But some English? works use it:

https://www.amazon.com/Beast-Tamer-Calliope-Hale-ebook/dp/B097Q9WC3X

Gods And Generals... Are the film and book similar enough that we don't need to disambig??

Edited by Malady on Jun 10th 2022 at 8:51:20 AM

To answer the Beast Tamer question, we don't disambiguate unless there's an actual or inevitable collision, whether it be with a trope or another work.

~RallyBot2

And my concern is that there seems like there is an inevitable collision.

Again though I have been completely unable to find any other work named just Beast Tamer. Except for a really obscure book that might not even be called that in english.

Edited by Ordeaux26 on Jun 10th 2022 at 12:13:33 PM

If it's just the anime that's titled Beast Tamer, then I would just make an Anime.Beast Tamer redirect to the light novel page. Wait until the light novels get a localization — if they do — to figure out what to do with the light novel page. It's possible for the anime adaption and the light novels to have different localized titles, as in the case of My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected (the anime was localized first, with the title My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU).