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)
- I'm with Interrobang on this. I don't think we've ever had a minimum-reader-familiarity requirement for parenthetical abbreviations. I don't even know how we'd establish that. The point of abbreviating, I thought, is just to make the parentheticals as short as possible, since they only exist to separate identically-named pages, not to convey important information. They're barely a step above calling pages "Optimus Prime (1)", "Optimus Prime (2)", etc. If the reader doesn't know what "RB" is, well, that's why we start articles with a disambig note.
- Edit: Looking at Optimus Prime (disambiguation), I see what you mean about the many unabbreviated two-word parentheticals. But those are all storyline titles and suchlike, which we've always treated as a special case. Multi-word franchises, as far as I can tell, are abbreviated by default. (Or you can look at it as franchises being the special case because the disambig-notes tend to spell things out immediately. Either way.)
- - Jackpot 20:31, 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)
I can't help but think we should disambiguate all the various "Rescue Team" groups. We have a Rescue Force, a Rescue Patrol, a Rescue Patrol Team, and now the Rescue Bots, who are likely to be referred to as the "Rescue Bots force" or "Rescue Bots team" or something at some point. (...Rescue doesn't look like a word anymore.) --Andrusi 15:17, 16 February 2011 (EST)
- Heck, then there's Takara's Rescue Hero Go-Bots. --Salt-Man Z 16:24, 16 February 2011 (EST)
