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Shouldn't this article's name be changed to "Cannonball (G1)" or "Cannonball (Wings of Honor)", since Timelines is not technically a continuity? {{unsigned|Dinoshot}}
Shouldn't this article's name be changed to "Cannonball (G1)" or "Cannonball (Wings of Honor)", since Timelines is not technically a continuity? {{unsigned|Dinoshot}}
: We don't disambiguate by continuity.  We disambiguate by franchise.  Timelines is a franchise.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:54, 2 October 2011 (EDT)
: We don't disambiguate by continuity.  We disambiguate by franchise.  Timelines is a franchise.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:54, 2 October 2011 (EDT)
Aw.  Thanks for clearing that up.[[User:Dinoshot|Dinoshot]] 14:44, 2 October 2011 (EDT)
::So why is this G1 now? Hell, half the Timelines articles seem to be disambigged by continuity rather than by franchise. What's the deal there? --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 07:26, 2 September 2015 (EDT)
:::At some point it was decided that Timelines is generally in the business of inserting characters into pre-existing franchises, so now (Timelines) is mostly avoided in favour of whatever franchise the character is placed in. There's the odd exception like TFSS Ironfist that doesn't fit cleanly into a single franchise, so gets left at (Timelines). [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 08:07, 2 September 2015 (EDT)

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Shouldn't this article's name be changed to "Cannonball (G1)" or "Cannonball (Wings of Honor)", since Timelines is not technically a continuity? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dinoshot (talkcontribs).

We don't disambiguate by continuity. We disambiguate by franchise. Timelines is a franchise. --ItsWalky 13:54, 2 October 2011 (EDT)

Aw. Thanks for clearing that up.Dinoshot 14:44, 2 October 2011 (EDT)

So why is this G1 now? Hell, half the Timelines articles seem to be disambigged by continuity rather than by franchise. What's the deal there? --Riptide (talk) 07:26, 2 September 2015 (EDT)
At some point it was decided that Timelines is generally in the business of inserting characters into pre-existing franchises, so now (Timelines) is mostly avoided in favour of whatever franchise the character is placed in. There's the odd exception like TFSS Ironfist that doesn't fit cleanly into a single franchise, so gets left at (Timelines). Jalaguy (talk) 08:07, 2 September 2015 (EDT)