User talk:SirJective/Parenthesis/other
Careful with the USS articles. The parens are the ship hull number and the proper title of the ship. Yes, they eventually should have index pages for the numerous ships that carry the same name. A strict removal of the paren is not a good idea in this case. Not a complaint, just a note of caution. Jinian 15:40, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC) (copied from the village pump by SirJective)
Careful with Symphony No. 94 (Haydn). It's just a random fact about Haydn that he wrote so many symphonies, and a title like "Symphony No. 94" would be a bizarre and baffling way to designate Haydn's 94th symphony. Ditto for other numbered symphonies, sonatas, etc. I guess this is might be obvious, but just in case... So many articles seem to get mutilated by bots. Cheers, Opus33 03:58, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
In the case of this article, the parenthesis are only there to denote the TV show. Removing the parenthesis on this article doesn't effect the content because the first line also explains from which TV show the ship orignated. The same is more or less true for the other articles of UC gundam ships. Just be careful if you move or rename them because of lot of the gundam ship pages link to one another. TomStar81 07:13, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The parent page for the parenthetical versions of this subject is List of named passenger trains, which is a worldwide (albeit mostly North American-centric right now) list of trains. I've made List of North American named passenger trains a redirect to the proper parent page. slambo 20:54, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
There are plenty of subjects where the subject someone wants to write about is clearly not the significant one, the one that people would mean if they typed in the non-parenthesized version of the title. An example of this would be The Cold Equations (The Twilight Zone), an adaptation of the original story The Cold Equations from the 1980s Twilight Zone revival. There are also numerous subjects where the article title without the parentheses refers to an article that should not be written, since it would be a dictdef, like Teacher's Pet (Buffy episode). Are you sure that asking people to "fix" these things is a good idea? -- Antaeus Feldspar 22:25, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Another situation in which parentheses may be inevitable arises, for example, in naming an article about the novel "The Watcher". There are actually at least two novels of that name – one written in 1851, and one in 1981. There are also TV shows, episode names, film names, and song names. (See the disambiguation currently listed under "Watcher".) I have just finished creating article titles (but not articles) "The Watcher (novel, 1851)" and "The Watcher (novel, 1981)". Micro-Parallel ( talk) 19:54, 25 February 2009 (UTC)