User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20130203002409/@comment-188432-20131129001645

As far as I can tell by reading the thread we basically were in agreement about this:
 * '''All home media releases should be shunted off into their own page that follows the same nomenclature as series pages.

The question was really about the nomenclature. There are two parts to that question: BBC Wales and BBC London.

BBC Wales series
With BBC Wales home releases, they're pretty much all done by season, though the odd special is released individually. So what nomenclature do you use? I strongly favour a move to: Name series n but we would move whilst retaining the old links. There's great utility in being able to pipe trick away the show name, as in: series 2 (Torchwood) and we don't want to sacrifice that.

So: Torchwood series 2 becomes the official PAGENAME, but series 2 (Torchwood) is retained. This then clears the way for Torchwood series 2 (home media).

I had proposed earlier that we go with DW series 1, TW series 1 and SJA series 1. I'm prepared to concede that Digifiend is correct that using the whole name is the most common search term.

However, it was long ago agreed by discussion that The Sarah Jane Adventures shall in general be abbreviated "SJA"

So for me it would have to be SJA series 1 and SJA series 1 (home media).

BBC London (or old series)
The original series is of course released per story, and this immediately leads to the problem of "double disambiguation". Are we really prepared to go with The Ark in Space (TV story) (home media)? I'm not. So we should go with The Ark in Space (home media)

Is "home media" good enough?
Although I've given examples in this post for (home media) being the disambiguation term, I don't think that's what should be done in every single case. Yes, certainly, (home media) is what we do with BBC Wales stuff.

But for BBC London, I had argued that we neededtwo things: (home video) and (home audio). I'm going to back away from that earlier point and say that (home media) is sufficient for all. The Stones of Blood example is moot now that the infobox handle adaptations a lot better. We can just send people off to The Stones of Blood (audio story) via the "adapted into" line.

So, one disambiguation term.

"home media" or "(home media)"?
But I'm still left with nagging doubt as to the utility of the page name. If you have SJA series 1 (home media), you can't really pipe trick that into anything useful. You'd be left with "SJA series 1", and therefore no obvious discussion from simply SJA series 1 itself. Equally, with old series stuff, The Ark in Space (home media) would pipe trick into just The Ark in Space, which would be confusing.

I'm kind of thinking, now, that it may be better to drop the parentheses, because then you'd be left with The Ark in Space home media, which at least parses well. Unfortunately, it also leaves you with the need to pipe trick to proper italicisation, which is laborious: The Ark in Space home media

So maybe that means the quickest typing exercise would be: The Ark in Space (home media) home media.
 * which renders as The Ark in Space home media. Is that good enough?  It seems to be, but I dunno if people want to have the word "home media" blue-linked as well.

I mean, is the only link to these pages going to be the one on the (TV story) page itself, or maybe templates? If so, the name is less important. But if there are instances of linking directly to the (home media) page from the body of an article, then we need to think about the impact of pipe tricking on the eventual name.

"home media" or "releases"?
Of course, Shambala108 has suggests the word releases instead. And I don't have a problem with that. It's slightly shorter. The dab term could just as easily be "releases", if that's what others prefer.