Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4738647-20160406171700/@comment-12959254-20160410194348

AeD wrote: Yeah, alright, but, consider:


 * "Optimus Prime (Primax)/984.17 Alpha" looks and reads like complete indecipherable (and unguessable) garbage to anyone who isn't deeply steeped in, or has memorised, all this junk.

The Marvel/DC "Earth-616," "Earth-Twelve" system works 'cuz all the important stuff happens in 616 and One, and the other relevant universes are either just called "Earth-One" through "Earth-Fifty-Two" (DC) or have relatively straight forward 2-to-5 digit numbers (Marvel), and once you're in complicated numbers like "Earth-604829," you're talking about the 1981 Spider-Man cartoon, and higher than that gets you any number of weird "What If?" stories, or in-universe cartoons. "Spider-Man (Earth-616)" is probably a little dense to a complete newbie, but you grasp that pretty quickly.

By contrast, "Optimus Prime (Primax)/984.17 Alpha" would be the page for a main character from one of the founding fictions of this franchise, and though you, steeped in it, might have no issue with it, it makes this site look like it's for robots. Nobody's ever gonna type "(Primax)/984.17 Alpha" into an address bar by themselves. While I agree that this new disambiguation thing is a little bit too complicated and obscure, I think users can access G1 cartoon Optimus Prime's page with ease via "Optimus Prime (Primax)" page.

Also you talked about Marvel's complicated numbers. But not every number is for obscure realities, some of them are for better known versions of characters such as Tobey Maguire Spider-Man's Earth-96283. Users can access his page through Spider-Man disambiguation page, the same logic with Optimus Prime (Primax).