Best way to handle duplicate names?

I plan on adding Steven Boyett's Ariel, a book, but there already exists an Ariel. What's the best way to handle this?

Use author or date of publication to distinguish them. Literature.Ariel2000, for example.

edited 1st Nov '11 6:56:31 PM by Fighteer

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Once you've split them both into separate pages make Literature.Ariel a disambig page. Actually, Main.Ariel is also a book so you might just want to make the main a disambig and redirect the literature there.

edited 1st Nov '11 7:31:07 PM by shimaspawn

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Generally, for Literature, I've found that it's best to use either the author (or the series, if that applies) compared to stuff like Film, since there's rarely more than one or two.

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This one has at least three.

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Authors?

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Actually, this issue has come up for Roommates and Roommates. Both are webcomics, both are fanfiction, both originated from online art communities, and the only other thing they have in common is that they coincidentally have the same name. Neither has a greater claim to Main/Roommates than the other. The same is true for FanFic/Roommates and Webcomic/Roommates — the description applies equal to both unrelated works. How is this situation addressed?

edited 27th Dec '11 12:27:52 AM by Gilgameshkun

That's because, as work pages, neither of them is allowed to be on that page. Main/ is for tropes.

Also, I'd argue that the image from the 2009 one's page is borderline NSFW, but that's a matter for a different page.

edited 27th Dec '11 9:28:44 AM by INUH

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... or disambiguation pages when there is a name conflict between media.

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Which would be the case here. Main.Roommates should be a disambiguation page with links to all pages for works of that name.

In the case of two works that share the same name and media, I'd say pick some other unambiguous identifier, like we did for Sally Forth Howard and Sally Forth Wood (two comic strips), where we used the original the artists' names, or Dennis The Menace US and Dennis The Menace UK, where we used the country of origin. Then use the custom titler to make the indentifier display in parentheses after the name of the work

edited 27th Dec '11 10:54:15 AM by Madrugada

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