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Same Word, Different Game
Running into this more and more when editing my W:tA entries; there are a lot of terms that are used in more than one game and can refer to very different (or confusingly similar) things; the obvious solution is to point to an article that clearly refers to the term as used in that game (Auspice (WTA) vs. Auspice). But would it be a good idea to edit the "Auspice" entry (as an example) such as to make it an entry of disambiguation - linking to all known examples of that term? --PalominoMule 22:28, 29 May 2005 (UTC)


 * There's a similar porblem with terms that have a meaning in game and out of the game. For example, Vitae mean both blood in both editions of Vampire, but is also specifically used to mean "blood points" in V:tR.  I suggest the following convention.
 * * The Generic term is used for a disambiguation page.
 * * all instances of the term for a game use a WikiWord formatted as TERM_(game) where game is the short form of the game (i.e., WtA, VtM, EtA and so on), with 'real' reserved for the term outside of the game.
 * So for using Vitae,we'd have Vitae, Vitae_(real), Vitae_(VtM), and Vitae_(VtR)...eventually. Similarly, Shadowlands, Shadowlands_(WtO) and Shadowlands(E) for the different uses of Shadowlands in Exalted and Wraith.  We also can probably just skip the disambiguation if the target pages are less than, say, a typed page each.

--205.201.9.174 01:31, 30 May 2005 (UTC)


 * The system I've been using (and would prefer others use) is to keep the abbreviation all in caps, like so: Trinity Universe (TU), Age of Sorrows (AOS), Vampire: The Requiem (VTR), Werewolf: The Apocalypse (WTA), Mummy: The Resurrection (MTR), and so forth.
 * I'd prefer people use AOS for stuff in the Exalted universe.
 * Also note that some stuff will include lower-case for clarity's sake: New World of Darkness (nWOD), Old World of Darkness (oWOD), Mage: The Ascension (MTAs), Mage: The Awakening (MTAw).
 * So the pain old link will be disambiguation, link (oWOD) and link (TU) will point to seperate terms. In the case of vitae as mentioned above, I suggest something like advantage vitae (VTR), or something similar. However, sspecifically with vitae, I think we can keep both entries on the same page. A seperate page for the Blood and for the game term aren't really necessary. IanWatson 01:35, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)