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)

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 Heroes Go-Bots. --Salt-Man Z 16:24, 16 February 2011 (EST)

Leading inevitably to the quote "Rescue Bot heroes, go!" --Andrusi 11:28, 17 February 2011 (EST)

Continuity Family

I'm just dying to know how this fits into our confam/universal stream hierarchy. --Khajidha 11:45, 24 March 2011 (EDT)

I'd wager it's its own little corner of the multiverse. --Detour 12:34, 24 March 2011 (EDT)

Well aparently its toon is going to involve them as trainees too young to work with Prime so its not imopossible it'll link to Prime but it IS a bit of a stretch. Well just have to wait and see...

All of its characters already get their own page because it's its own continuity family. If they were attached to anything else, the characters would go on existing pages. --ItsWalky 12:43, 24 March 2011 (EDT)

The Autobots in the show are all stationed on a secluded island, FAR from Nevada, and the show only features cameo appearances from Optimus Prime, and Bumblebee is only a toy, and not mentioned in the show. Perhaps the show takes place in an already established continuity? Maybe Aligned, as is Hasbro's current "agenda", and it takes place during the three year period when there was no Decepticon activity in the Prime timeline? Perhaps it is in the Aligned continuity family, but not aligned with Prime, but rather WFC and FOC? The Autobots leave Cybertron for Earth, and the Decepticons never bother them afterwards? Maybe it's G1, and takes place after "The Rebirth". It's all quite interesting to think about. --Kaymac192 23:13, 1 December 2011 (EST)