Since the previous iteration of this thread got completely wiped in the crash, I'm remaking it. Also, have a relevant ATT thread.
There's a lot of unnecessary "do not confuse this with X" notes on wiki pages. As a quick example, VideoGame.Creepy Castle says "Not to be confused with the level with the same name from Donkey Kong 64." Nobody is going to confuse an action-adventure game from a few years ago with the last level of a 90's collectathon platformer, and that's not even the only game with a level named "Creepy Castle". I would delete it myself, but I've already deleted it once and I don't want to edit war over it.
If you find any misleading or Fan Myopia-filled disambiguation notes on pages, bring them up here.
Additionally, I would like to propose that "do not confuse with" notes should only be for pages with similar titles, such as Run-and-Gun vs. Do Not Run with a Gun, rather than "this series is named for a character whose name is the same as another character from an unrelated series", such as the note that used to be on Series.Benson about a character from WesternAnimation.Regular Show.
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Cut. Honestly, even the reference to the Queen song is pushing it.
she/her
Ok, it's gone.
Red Link says "Not to be confused with the red Link from The Legend of Zelda series." This one is especially annoying, as even in context, it's pretty obscure; there's only two Zelda games that have "the red Link" in them, and neither of them are particularly well-known.
Edited by Serac on Aug 2nd 2020 at 6:50:54 AM
No-lifer
A while ago, I added the line "Not to be confused with Examples Are Not Recent" on No Recent Examples, Please!, before this thread existed. Is it worth keeping?
Limpin' with the bizkit.
That actually does sound like something that could conceivably confuse people.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Yeah, keep that one.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Showtime!
Is this pothole from Organ Grinder really necessary?
See also One-Man Band. Not related to putting someone's privates in a meatgrinder.
The One-Man Band bit is fine, but who assumes that an Organ Grinder is about a meat-grinder inflicted Groin Attack?
Absolute destiny... apeachalypse?
No-lifer
kiby :]
From Take That!:
Not to be confused with This Loser Is You, nor with the British boy band. Nor the Big Word Shout used by protagonists in the Ace Attorney series, nor the Board Game mechanic where players directly make moves against others in the game.
I have a hard time believing anybody would confuse the trope with these.
(Don't) take me home.
Very Spooky
Cut them all.
kiby :]
Okay, I'll go ahead and remove them.
Edit: To be honest, consider the whole preview/edit Re CAPTCHA situation, I'm not sure if I can.
Edited by ATricksterArtist on Aug 4th 2020 at 12:12:07 PM
(Don't) take me home.
No-lifer
kiby :]
What about this from Human Popsicle:
This is not to be confused with Ajax's plans to turn someone into a Popsicle, which has less to to do with being frozen, and more to do with having a stick shoved through them.
Before I edited it, it was this:
This is not to be confused with Ajax's plans for you with a bat.
Showtime!
even the clearer version is unnecessary
Yeah, cut.
she/her
Mako says "Not to be confused with the Japanese voice actress of the same name or an Awesome Personnel Carrier from a certain space-themed video game." The thing about another voice actor who uses the same pseudonym is fine, but "lol mass effect reference" can die in a fire. I'm also going to remove it from the It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY" example.
Edited by Serac on Aug 7th 2020 at 9:59:01 AM
Agreed all around.
Honestly surprised a Mass Effect reference made it in before a Legend of Korra or Final Fantasy VII reference.
Especially since the Korra character was named after the guy.
she/her
Literature.Storm Front says "Do not confuse with Stormfront.com or Chimpout.com if these come up as your Google results for this book." Given that the former is a website for neo-Nazis, I really don't think we should be advertising it. And I have no idea what the other website is or why it would show up in a Google search for "storm front".
No-lifer
That can be cut without losing anything.
The Scarlet Letter has one of these at the start, before talking about the actual subject of the page. Surely that's not appropriate.
she/her
Yeah, that can go.
she/her
Overdrive says "Close to, but not to be confused with, the Final Fantasy X move called Overdrive (which is listed under Limit Break)." It isn't close to being a Limit Break. The only thing that it is is Fan Myopia.
*sigh* Yes, cut that.
From Money Spider:
Parodied in a great number of video-game-based webcomics and other satire. Not to be confused with this. Nor this.
◊ Nor Muffet the spider from Undertale, who wants your money.
