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In my experience, Title 1 is used anyway. Consider The Legend of Zelda (which is custom-titled to remove the roman numeral from display, possibly wrongly) and Metroid.
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^ I can confirm that the Zelda custom title is against policy, but both of those games had sequels with a Roman-numeral II.
The question is whether to use Title 1 if there aren't any numbered sequels.
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To my understanding, disambiguation by year is the correct method. To take it from the general to the specific, I'm working on pages for the Foundation series right now. The first story was a Novelette published in 1942 under the title "Foundation", but republished as a chapter under the title "The Encyclopedists". The Novel it was reprinted in? Foundation, in 1951. Two sequels followed, reprinted in an Omnibus volume entitled The Foundation Trilogy, and several novels followed that one. Seven books have been printed with "The Foundation Novels" as a Tagline, but this would be inaccurate to the short fiction that make up the Trilogy.
So my plan is to write the first story at Literature.The Encyclopedists, with Literature.Foundation 1942 as a redirect. I'll write the first novel at Literature.Foundation 1951, the original trilogy at Literature.The Foundation Trilogy, and rewrite Literature.Foundation to index every authorized work published in the Literature medium. Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
^^ That's true, isn't it? I was thinking of the rest of the games in the franchises, which both abandoned numbered sequels after the second.
If a work shares its name with its first entry and is ineligible for Franchise/, and later sequels are unnumberednote , is it safe to say the first entry should usually be disambiguated by year if possible?
(This is intended as a general question, not a question pertaining to any specific work.)