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Hhkohh: How do you reconcile your position with our book-specific guideline,
WP:SUBTITLE, which states:
Usually, a Wikipedia article on a book (or other medium, such as a movie, TV special or video game) does not include its subtitle in the Wikipedia page name, per
WP:CONCISE. The only exception to that is short article titles, for disambiguation purposes.
Oppose - continuing on from what Power~enwiki said, I actually think that "The Gene" should maybe be a disambiguation page with at least this page,
Gene and
The Selfish Gene. I also don't see how the proposed title offers better clearity than the current one. Also, just because 142.160.89.97 keeps on asking -
WP:IAR for WP:SMALLDETAILS. --
Gonnym (
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10:07, 9 September 2018 (UTC)reply
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Gonnym: If this is per
WP:IAR, on what basis are you arguing this circumstance to be exceptional, such that it wouldn't have been specifically taken into account in the drafting of
WP:SMALLDETAILS? Because if it is not exceptional in any way, to merely disregard a central consensus because we disagree with it would be in violation of
WP:CONLEVEL.
142.160.89.97 (
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18:30, 9 September 2018 (UTC)reply
Please don't make up rules to a policy. WP:IAR does not ask that. Also, no. I don't think it was taken into account while drafting
WP:SMALLDETAILS, as I've learned from experience that a lot of editors prefer to have guidelines and polices as bare as possible so the "spirit" of Wikipedia could be persevered and we'll have to hash the same things on a case-by-case basis each time. --
Gonnym (
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20:21, 9 September 2018 (UTC)reply
Oppose cited guideline does not apply as disambiguation and long title are clearly beneficial to readers here, and in cases without (book) WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT works for short titles.
In ictu oculi (
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07:31, 10 September 2018 (UTC)reply
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