Talk:Sideways (disambiguation)

See here for a very sensible (I reckon) suggestion as to organising Sidewayses in a post-Complete Almanac world. I might work up a sandbox or two. Jalaguy (talk) 08:48, 13 May 2015 (EDT)

I strongly disagree with that suggestion, and I will fight it to the death. --ItsWalky (talk) 10:28, 13 May 2015 (EDT)

Well, the alternative, I guess, is merging the ROTF and Kre-O characters onto Sideways (RID)? As far as I can tell, the list of Sidewayses from the Almanac is:

• ROTF Junior Novel -> Armada comic
• RID -> Armada cartoon + elsewhere
• ROTF game -> Vok nebula -> Hero Mashers/Construct-Bots/etc.
• Aligned -> Angry Birds -> ROTF game
• Kre-O manga -> IDW movieverse -> Robotmasters

So those two are definitely tangled in with all the others. Jalaguy (talk) 10:42, 13 May 2015 (EDT)

I mostly don't see why it helps to split RID Sideways from Armada cartoon Sideways. Like, why this tiny stub of an article that says "oh hey go look over here for the rest of what he did"? That seems like the opposite of helpful and userfriendly, to split up a guy just because... I'm not sure why. Also, both the ROTF guys would be on the same page. They're both Sidewayses from Tyran, same as there can be more than one Shockwave from Primax. We wouldn't split that up normally, I'm not sure why we'd split that up here. --ItsWalky (talk) 11:09, 13 May 2015 (EDT)

There also, like, aren't any specific ancillary merchandise versions of Sideways? No Hero Masher or Construct-Bot or Bot Shot that I remember. There was an RPM, but that was definitely ROTF Sideways, and the Super Collection Figure was just the Armada guy. --Monzo (talk) 12:51, 13 May 2015 (EDT)

For what it's worth, I think Jalaguy's proposal is probably the most sensible way to do it, as well as the easiest to understand for casual fans - it emphasizes his actions within each continuity family, and de-emphasizes the "he's actually a bunch of guys crossing over with each other" thing, while still having it there. Plus, it avoids having Armada Sideways being split between the RID and ROTF pages. We can "track" the known incarnations of Sideways on his disambiguation page. Riptide (talk) 14:28, 13 May 2015 (EDT)

Agreed with Riptide. There's not enough seperation between any Sidewayses in the above list to consider them worthy of seperate pages. There is one thing I have to add, though- they're basically confirmed enough to have a single page, but because of the RID episode we can't un-disambiguate the page name. What do we call it instead? Since Sideways (RID)... definitely does not disambiguate when the episode is from RID15. Sky Shadow (talk) 14:22, 14 May 2015 (EDT)