Forum:Proposal: Article Title Policy

In the past few weeks I've noticed that many article titles, mainly the ones stemming from Black Ops, have had unnecessary disambiguations in them, such as "M16 (Black Ops)" or "Makarov (sidearm)." Now I know most of these have been corrected, but it does show that the community has a lack of knowledge of how to handle disambiguations. The closes thing we to a policy regarding it is a line in the Character Policy that is used to identify two characters with the same name. So here's my proposal:


 * Article titles will have disambiguations if and only if two titles are exactly the same, such as Foley (World War II) and Foley (Modern Warfare 2). Articles such as Vladimir Makarov and Makarov (sidearm) do not count.


 * If similarly named articles require a disambiguation page, then the title of the disambiguation page will be titled with the name the two articles share followed by "(disambiguation)". For example, the M16A4's and M16's disambiguation page is titled "M16 (disambiguation)". The articles themselves will not have the disambiguation in them, such as "M16 (Black Ops)".

I'm open to any suggestions. Even if this doesn't pass, I would at least like to bring it to the community's attention. Chief z 13:46, October 16, 2010 (UTC)