Tardis talk:Disambiguating story titles

Dabbing features
This is something that usually would go on the forums, because it's technically a change in policy. But in their indefinite absence, I'd like to bring it up here, because it's straightforward and is actually making it difficult, or at least confusing, for me to carry through with some edits. If an admin disagrees and thinks it should wait until then, they can shut it down.

Basically, my proposal is that this policy should apply to everything, not just stories. Non-narrative features and games, while currently invalid, are still important, and are confusing because they only have the dab term in cases of ambiguity. This is leading to more confusion instead of less! User:Scrooge MacDuck says it best at User:Najawin/Sandbox 5:


 * T:DAB STORY should apply to all fiction. The rule that stories don't automatically get dab terms serves no practical purpose and just leads to inconsistent dabbing (since a number of invalid stories do need to be dabbed anyway to prevent ambiguity). This should also apply to non-narrative fiction: the dab term "(feature)" should be universalised.

So I'm proposing the introduction of (feature) and (game). There are wider changes I'd like to see about our disambiguation policies, but those are definitely better suited to a Panopticon thread, so for now, it's just this. Chubby Potato ☎  05:26, 19 August 2021 (UTC)