Talk:Ravenous 1

Dab term
I noticed that one editor put a speedy rename template (right move) and another editor moved the page (bad move). Could you both explain the rationale behind having a dab term here? Thanks. Amorkuz ☎  15:39, April 10, 2018 (UTC)


 * When I added the speedy rename template, I did so because I thought that all audio anthologies required the dab term, in large part because all of the other Eighth Doctor audio anthologies, among others, had them. Having investigated the matter more fully, I see that there are plenty of others which don't have the dab term. As such, I am less certain on this issue than I was earlier and would appreciate some clarification as to when the dab term should and shouldn't be used. GusF ☎  19:06, April 10, 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, what exactly are the rules? All of Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition and the War Doctor box sets have the disambiguation but The Eighth Doctor: The Time War, The Churchill Years and The Diary of River Song don't. -- Saxon 21:00, April 10, 2018 (UTC)


 * What is certain is that there is no policy requiring a dab term for anthologies, unlike, say, stories, which are always dabbed (so I would have at a minimum use "rename" instead of "speedy rename" in such cases). Anthologies are at the moment left to their own devices and there is a bit of inconsistency in the names, quite a bit actually. Now I thought this through over Christmas and explained in Thread:227330 why using the dab term for anthology titles with colon should be avoided. There it is purely a productivity issue. I've done a fair bit of renaming then and will return to it when time permits.


 * However, that argument does not apply to Dark Eyes 2 (audio anthology), Doom Coalition 3 (audio anthology) or Ravenous 1 (audio anthology) because they do not have a colon. I myself still believe the dab term is not needed here. And there was a request to keep the redirect from the dabbed variant, which is not a problem. If there is a real benefit of keeping the page with the dab term, I'd be interested to hear it. There's always room for improvement. If there isn't, I don't see the point of making page titles longer than needed. Amorkuz ☎  21:23, April 10, 2018 (UTC)