Talk:Rescue Bot

Oh my god. Not shortening "Rescue Bots" to "RB" is not some sort of strange exception to our rules. We tend to only shorten the disambiguations that a) don't conflict with any other abbreviations and b) are well-accepted or known abbreviations. There are plenty of disambiguations that aren't shortened! In fact, MOST of the disambiguations on Optimus Prime's disambig page ARE NOT ABBREVIATIONS. I'm not going to go back and revert everything back immediately, but know that I am not happy at all of this being moved around right from under me as I put this stuff together. --ItsWalky 15:50, 14 February 2011 (EST)

What are you on about? All of the multiple-word franchise disambiguation parentheses are abbreviated, from Robot Masters to Machine Wars to Return of Convoy. Some multiple-word disambigs aren't abbreviated, yes, but that doesn't matter because they're not franchises and the customary rules don't apply to them in the first place. —Interrobang 18:31, 14 February 2011 (EST)

Those were instated only once it was established that fans-in-general knew at a glance what the abbreviation stood for. If you don't remember, all of our Shattered Glass stuff used to be unabbreviated. We changed it after we realized that, well, people just use SG and it's understood. Nobody knows what the heck "RB" is. --ItsWalky 18:48, 14 February 2011 (EST)