Help:Disambiguation/Franchise-based vs. Fiction-based
For this, I opened up the G1 Characters category, opened up anything American that wasn't already disambiguated by a series or something more specific, and made a list of anything that anything that needed to be moved.
Ended up with:
30 total changes 3 of which probably need to be moved according to our current rules anyway
14 are fiction-only, so I'm not sure why they're being organized according to toys they don't have anyway.
2 things labelled (G2) that need to be moved because they're also in G1 stories. (Everything else moves down to a more specific level.) Considering that I would think anything Beast Wars or Animated is already technically sorted by series, and no existing Movie articles need moving and we can just switch to using (Movie) instead of (ROTF) for any future Movie articles... I think that more or less covers the series I'm familiar with. I'll also note that the (IDW G1), (Marvel G1), and (DW G1) are temporary labels. If we can think of better acronyms for those, I'd be open to using them.
English G1 Characters
[edit]Have Toys
[edit]- Banzai-Tron (G1) - Banzai-Tron (IDW G1)
- Barricade (G1) - Barricade (Micromasters)
- Bug Bite (GoBots) - Bug Bite (Timelines)
- Clench (G2) - Clench (G1)
- Dreadwing (G1) - Dreadwing (Marvel G1)
- Eagle Eye (G1) - Eagle Eye (IDW G1)
- Greasepit (Micromaster) - Greasepit (DW G1)
- Gunrunner (G1) - Gunrunner (IDW G1)
- Overbite (G1) - Overbite (Marvel G1)
- Snaptrap (G1) - Snaptrap (Marvel G1)
- Tentakil (G1) - Tentakil (Marvel G1)
- Road Rocket (G2) - Road Rocket (G1)
- Throttle (G1) - Throttle (Marvel G1)
Fiction-Only
[edit]- Crasher (G1) - Crasher (IDW G1)
- Crunch (G1) - Crunch (DW G1)
- DJ (G1) - DJ (IDW G1)
- Drift (G1) - Drift (IDW G1)
- Earthquake (G1) - Earthquake (Marvel G1)
- Grindcore (G1) - Grindcore (IDW G1)
- Manny (G1) - Manny (DW G1)
- Omega Sentinel (G1) - Omega Sentinel (DW)
- Overhaul (G1) - Overhaul (DW G1)
- Steamhammer (G1) - Steamhammer (Marvel G1)
- Stormbringer (G1) - Stormbringer (DW G1)
- Switchblade (G1) - Switchblade (Marvel G1)
- Toaster - Toaster (Marvel G1)
Probably Need to Get Moved Regardless
[edit]- Jetstorm (G2) - Jetstorm (G2)
- Ricochet (Headmasters) - Ricochet (Autobot)
- Skydive (G1 Aerialbot) - Skydive (Aerialbot)
Debate Cases
[edit]- Swarm (G2) and Swarm (IDW G1)
- Wheeljack (G1) - stays (in more than one G1 continuity)
- Blackarachnia (BW) - stays (BW is a series, franchise, and a continuity)
- Obsidian (BM) - Unsure. Stay I think, but I'm not familiar with Beast Machines I admit.
- Optimus Prime (G1) - stays (in more than one G1 continuity)
- Ravage - Doesn't get split because the Beast Wars character is the same as the G1 character and Beast Wars is a part of the G1 continuity family
- Flame (UK comic) - Move to whatever acronym we use for the Marvel G1
- Arcee (G1) - stays (in more than one G1 continuity)
- Alpha Trion (G1) - stays (in more than one G1 continuity)
- Quintesson - Doesn't get disambiguated because there's no other Quints in another continuity to disambiguate with
- Hubcap (MW) - Probably stay because, doesn't Timelines have everyone be visitors from other continuities anyway?
- Cloudraker (Universe) - Is he actually in any Armada fiction? There's none listed. Cloudraker (Armada) if he is, stay otherwise.
- Anything I missed that has to do with RID or A/E/C - not familiar enough to weigh in