Disambiguation term

Yanno those words in parentheses after some titles? It's important that we're all using the same words to describe the same thing. A (TV story) must be a (TV story) and not a (television story). Shortcut:

T:DAB TERM
T:DCC A **disambiguation term** or **dab term** is the bit of a page title which is in parentheses. In the page title Castrovalva (TV story), the dab term is (TV story). For the benefit of your fellow editors and readers, it's important that these terms be consistently applied. It also greatly helps in the writing of templates that have to handle story titles, as well as robotic maintenance of the wiki, if the same dab terms are used to describe the same types of things.

The chart below summarises the dab terms which we use across the site.

1. ↑ The exception here are episodes of *Doctor Who* featuring William Hartnell that share the same names as serials. So, An Unearthly Child (episode) is acceptable as a way to distinguish the first *episode* of DW from the first *serial'.*
2. ↑ If two different television series have stories of the same name, then disambiguate by using the prefix from Tardis:List of prefixes. For instance, if there were an SJA story named *Inferno*, then it would be Inferno (SJA TV story) and the DW story would have to move to Inferno (DW TV story). If two episodes of the *same* television series have the same name, then disambiguate by the year of initial broadcast. As of 2012, neither has really happened, though there have been some close calls with respect to William Hartnell episodes. Still, if *The Daleks* were now known by its original production title of *The Mutants*, then it would be The Mutants (1963 TV story) and the Jon Pertwee story would be The Mutants (1972 TV story)
3. ↑ If a thing is marketed as a 2-in-1 novel, flipbook, or the like, the constituent stories are themselves dabbed `(novel)`
4. ↑ The obvious exception to the rule is something like *Twilight of the Gods* which *should* use the disambig (MA novel) to distinguish it from the Bernice Summerfield novel of the same name, which should use (BNA novel). The "novel" might seem superfluous, but it helps readers unfamiliar with these rather obscure corners of the DWU to immediately recognize they're novels. *Any* use of one of our wiki's prefixes should be followed by a word that will help any user to know instantly which medium the work is in.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Only use dab term if necessary to prevent ambiguity; unlike the dab terms of valid stories, these are only to be applied when it is actually necessary.
6. ↑ What's meant by the *original* graphic novel? A comic story that was *originally* printed on its own and bears no reprints. So it's The Only Good Dalek (comic story), but The Iron Legion (graphic novel).
7. ↑ The term "graphic novel" has tremendous variability, especially as between American and British use. As a purely arbitrary matter, all things which might be considered trade paperbacks or collected editions shall be disambiguated "(graphic novel)". Yes, technically, we should be using the American "trade paperback" to disambig IDW output, but simplicity wins over accuracy in this case. We need everything disambiguated the same way.
8. ↑ This only applies to actual Internet releases, such as things originally released on YouTube or on the BBC website. "Streaming television" like things unique to the BBC iPlayer or Red Button are still considered to fall within the umbrella "(TV story)".
9. ↑ For clarity and uniformity's sake, mythological beings from the real world should be dabbed as "(mythology)", rather than by story, **even if** they have appeared "on-screen" in a given DWU story.