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Question about username

I'm just curious; is the "Dax" in your username a reference to the Dax symbiont from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?

User:Yohan Anthony Sunanda 19:16, 22 Jan 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you for letting me know. I changed the wikilink from Thriller to Thriller (genre). Thanks again! CostaDax (talk) 09:07, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Your article on the show Ascension

   Regarding the article you started on the show, your move/rename that changed its namespace makes clear (in combination with its earlier edit history) that it was you who (in creating the original revision) included the suffix "(TV series)" in the article's title. You may be among the editors who blamelessly assume, from seeing examples, that by default any TV series should bear that suffix. In fact, tho, the probable predominance of such examples reflects the frequency with which shows share a name with one or more other topics, but fail to "bestride the world like a Collossus", by having a share-of-mind that eclipses other uses of the same article-name even when no contextual hints are available.
   In fact, if we had sufficient reason to believe Ascension were such a primary topic for that word, we'd take the title away from its current topic and reassign it to the show's article. (And we'll do it if and when the show is such a runaway hit that most everyone thinks of it instead of the other encyclopedia-article-worthy Ascensions, as we judge is the case with 60 Minutes: in light of it, other shows -- and indeed "the length of an hour" -- seem obscure). Conversely, in the absence of convincing evidence that the show Ascension is the primary topic, two tightly coupled implications follow:

1. The show's article needs that suffix (namely the one you included) at least until there is another TV series named "Ascension".
2. The show's article needs to be the target of a link, in an (almost always single-line) "Dab entry", on the "disambiguation page" for the term "Ascension" or "ascension". (That page might be titled either Ascension or Ascension (disambiguation).)

In this case, the one-word title applies, and i have created the Dab entry in the first three lines of the section Ascension#Arts and entertainment. That avoids the situation i faced, of it appearing there were articles covering many things called "Ascension", but no article on the show. (Today was the first i'd heard of it, and it looked like i had to start a stub for the topic.)
   Thanks for contributing, and i hope we'll resume seeing your edits as your priorities permit.
--Jerzy•t 09:12, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi CostaDax: Sorry to trouble you, but I could not help but notice your expression of affection for TOS on the Wikipedians who like Star Trek: The Original Series page, and so I would be curious of your thoughts on the notability of a Star Trek author for whom I just created a Wikipedia article -- which may be promptly destined for the trash pile. As a newcomer here at Wikipedia, my first article attempt was indeed recommended for deletion within hours of its creation by a senior user named JzG who seems to me to be overly hostile and dismissive of Star Trek, calling it fancruft (= trivial, obscure, of importance to just a tiny group of fanatics) . Since you are a Trek fan, if it is also your good faith opinion that my subject is in no way deserving of an article on this site; and you could let me know, I would feel much more comfortable with the justice of the pending deletion action. My proposed article may be seen here, assuming you visit the page soon enough ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gurian Kind Regards. Tosresearcher (talk) 05:19, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

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