Talk:Gabriel (mythology)

Rename
As it turns out, the angel Gabriel was first mentioned in Vampire Science twelve years before The Unhappy Medium, so per T:DAB the page should rightfully be called "Gabriel (Vampire Science)", methinks. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  22:56, January 28, 2019 (UTC)
 * Unless Gabriel appears in some form, I don't this a rename is called for. T:DAB says "Characters are named according to the story (or episode) they first appeared in", not first referenced in. OncomingStorm12th ☎  22:58, January 28, 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm aware, but Gabriel doesn't appear in The Unhappy Medium either, from what I gather. Is there any policy on characters/topics that are only ever mentioned, and never appear in the flesh? --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  23:00, January 28, 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh, my bad then. I assumed he did appear in the latter story. I think if a characters is only ever mentioned, it typically is dab for the first story in which they were mentioned, unitl (or if) they appear somewhere else. OncomingStorm12th ☎  23:02, January 28, 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, my initial reply has basically been covered while I was typing it. Story dab goes to first appearance, generally, not mention. If Gabriel doesn't actually appear in The Unhappy Medium, it would be better to find an alternative to story dabbing, as this is a figure from the real world who may well have been mentioned in any number of stories, and for searchability. We generally try to avoid story dab terms for characters who do not make actual appearances. 23:03, January 28, 2019 (UTC)
 * "Gabriel (angel)" would be most straightforward, in that case, I believe? --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  23:05, January 28, 2019 (UTC)
 * Perhaps. Methuselah, biblical grandfather of Noah, is Methuselah (mythology), rather than Methuselah (The Night of 1000 Stars), and there seems to be a great precedence for (mythology) as a dab term. 23:07, January 28, 2019 (UTC)
 * Same for Icarus (mythology) and Jason (mythology), to name two examples. Only angel who actually appears I can think of is Yy, who requires no disambiguation. 23:10, January 28, 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay… changing the rename tag to "Gabriel (mythology)", then. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  23:17, January 28, 2019 (UTC)