Forum:When characters, etc. have the same name...

So I was thinking about this last night, how to best organize characters and other entries that would have the same name - like Molly and Molly (schoolgirl), Omar and Omar (Raiders), and Waiter and Waiter (individual).

I think that the best way to have a consistent identification scheme is probably to use the source material as the parenthetical information. We use the full name of the source material (film, novel, etc.) except we lop off the "Indiana Jones and the" to keep things short. For characters that appear in the Young Indy films, we use the final film names and not the Chronicles episode titles... unless the character only appears in the Chronicles episode (ie is a bookend character that needs disambiguation). So for the cases above we should have: this could then further simplify, if needed, so that characters from the 4 theatrical movies hopefully then could have their parenthetical identifier removed - so Omar from Raiders would just be Omar.
 * Molly (Masks of Evil) and Molly (Spear of Destiny)
 * Omar (My First Adventure) and Omar (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
 * Waiter (Emperor's Tomb) and Waiter (Passion for Life)

In the case that two entries come from the same source (such as Sergeant (individual) and Sergeant (Wurrfler), we could A) defer to the credits first, and then if not, simply number them. in this case, Sergeant 1 (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Sergeant 2 (Raiders of the Lost Ark) if we can't come up with more descriptive names for them. hopefully there won't be two Petes with no last name in the same source.

In the case that an entry needs disambiguation, and is found in multiple sources (not counting adaptations of a primary source), perhaps that entry could either have the non-parenthetical entry, while the other entry with a similar name gets the parenthetical one. (ie, if for some reason there was a second Sophia Hapgood that only appears in one place, that would be Sophia Hapgood (Story of Lameness), while the multiple-source one would just be Sophia Hapgood.

Seeing a source after a name would indicate that this is a unique person and not a generic job, so anyone who is Job Title (individual could then changed to be Job Title (source), like Pilot (individual) would be Pilot (Raiders of the Lost Ark).

this system should also work for when we have non-character entries with need for disambiguation... right now we have the Collette (boat from Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life), and i think there's a as-yet-not-made Collette who hangs out with Remy when on break from the front. they will be Collette (Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life) and Collette (whatever episode that is).

What do people think? Jawajames 20:03, 22 May 2009 (UTC)