pairing names

[stultiloquentia]

Oh, help help.

I spent part of this afternoon puttering around making stubs for characters and ships -- but I'm confused about the naming of pairing pages, and afraid I put some things in the wrong places.

Could somebody explain to me in small words how to create subpages with slashes in their titles? I want, for example, Buffy/Spike to appear as a subpage of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as McKay/Sheppard does for Stargate Atlantis. What do I type in the search box to get that?

Thanks.

Comments

[brownbetty]

Basically... you can't. quite.

McKay/Sheppard actually looks like SGA >> McKay >> Sheppard, if we were to indicate subpages with chirons instead of slashes. It just so happens that if you go to the /Sheppard subpage of McKay, you get a page about Mckay/Sheppard.

But, despite the model looking funky, if you go to SGA >> Sheppard/Mckay, you get the page you expect, so it sortakinda works anyway.

So, if you want to create BtVS/Buffy/Spike, it will technically be the Spike subpage of Buffy, but for our our purposes, it will be the Buffy/Spike subpage of BtVS.

Clear like mud?

[ratcreature]

but at some point things improved, didn't they? I mean the McKay/Sheppard page now lists Stargate Atlantis as its parent, and I remember that at the beginning it used to list "McKay". Or was I hallucinating that?

[stultiloquentia]

This! One can also apparently create page titles with slashes using {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}, but again, I don't understand how to create them as subpages.

It would be excellent if the answer got added to http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Subpages, as I think the subject is likely to come up again.

[brownbetty]

It depends on if there is a 2 in the string 1/2/3. So for Star Trek/Spock/Kirk, there is a Spock, because Spock basically has no first name. But for say, Stargate/McKay/Sheppard there is no McKay, because McKay's page is named [[Rodney McKay]]. It depends on if the page exists, basically.

I'll add this to the help page, though.

I'm wondering, also, if I can hack our subpage extension to use chirons, since the slash character is so frackin' useful in fandom.

[stultiloquentia]

Aha, this is starting to make sense! Thank you!

So, is there no way to get Angel/Spike to show up as a subpage of "Angel the Series", because Angel is a character?

[brownbetty]

Not unless you deleted A:tS/Angel and replaced it with A:tS/Angel (Vampire) or something. Even a redirect counts as a page.

[stultiloquentia]

Phooey. *waves a little flag for your chiron idea*

Hey, I'm looking at the A:tS/Angel page now, and its little template box doesn't show Spike as a subpage. That's...quirky. So I guess there's no way to find Angel/Spike except via links in the main text area (or the search function), huh?

[brownbetty]

Actually, if you look at the "list subpages" template, (somewhere, oh god) it probably has a setting for depth, or something that can be tweaked.

Um, if this makes no sense, respond, and I will try to explicate.

[stultiloquentia]

Okay, I found it and stuck it in the "other" field of the character template. That works for now. Thank you for the help!