First, why not [[Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes - 2009)]] instead? It breaks the pattern, yes, but is less awkward, and, well, we're talking about breaking the pattern anyway to remedy the situation, righ
Second. Considering that sometimes the same series (Granada, anyone?) has two actors in a row for the same character - not Holmes in this case but Watson, and yet - suggests that using the actor's name to differentiate will lead to other issues. I think I would settle for either the country or main production entity (BBC, etc) and media type, because entity + date should make it clear enough, but then, you'll have the same brackets issue if you don't decide to remove the one around the date:
[[Sherlock Holmes (BBC series - 2009)]] and [[Sherlock Holmes (USA movie - 2009)]]
since surely there is a disambiguation page about Holmes himself, gathering all these links, you can also decide to shorten his name to Holmes only in the page names...
There's a character page at the moment that's [[Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock (BBC))]], sans date - that's not too bad either... Though in the long term I think the lack of date will become annoying, perhaps.
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Second. Considering that sometimes the same series (Granada, anyone?) has two actors in a row for the same character - not Holmes in this case but Watson, and yet - suggests that using the actor's name to differentiate will lead to other issues. I think I would settle for either the country or main production entity (BBC, etc) and media type, because entity + date should make it clear enough, but then, you'll have the same brackets issue if you don't decide to remove the one around the date:
[[Sherlock Holmes (BBC series - 2009)]] and [[Sherlock Holmes (USA movie - 2009)]]
since surely there is a disambiguation page about Holmes himself, gathering all these links, you can also decide to shorten his name to Holmes only in the page names...
I see there's already http://fanlore.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_%28Granada%29 which is another solution I would have suggested...
There's a character page at the moment that's [[Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock (BBC))]], sans date - that's not too bad either... Though in the long term I think the lack of date will become annoying, perhaps.
Er. That was probably not so helpful.