Talk:The Beast Master

The page history says the name was changed by @SelfCloak to make room for a disambiguation page, but four years later "The Beast Master" still redirects here.

Unless I hear otherwise, I'm going to change the name of this page back to "The Beast Master" before Christmas.

@HeneryVII @Umbire the Phantom @Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

I'd have to say to distinguish it from the works page The Beastmaster, but given as work lacks a space between "Beast" and "Master" I doubt changing it is an issue.

If that were the case, I would think "The Beastmaster (film)" would be a better name for that article.

Why? Is there another "The Beastmaster" that the film needs to be disambiguated from?

Not that I'm aware of, but there's a "The Beastmaster (series)", IIRC.

That's good enough for a disambiguation page for "The Beastmaster", as far as I'm concerned.

Quick peek at The Other Wiki says...

• The Beast Master, a 1959 novel by Andre Norton
• The Beastmaster (film), a 1982 film loosely based on the novel
  • Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
  • Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus
• Beastmaster (TV series), a 1999 television series based on the 1982 film
• "Beastmaster", one of several Final Fantasy character classes
• Beast Master (manga), a manga created by the artist Kyousuke Motomi
• "Beastmaster", an X-Wild song from the album So What
• Ultimate Beastmaster, a Netflix reality TV show

Thanks, @Umbire the Phantom.

This means I am not renaming the trope page after all.

I feel otherwise, but I suppose it's ultimately down to consensus.

Sorry, I meant I am not renaming it back to "The Beast Master". The other discussion is still taking place with no consensus yet.

Ah, alright.

And now that I actually made the disambiguation page at "The Beast Master", I see that Umbrie the Phantom already made the disambiguation page... at "Beast Master". And the two lists don't match - each has at least one entry that isn't on the other.

Which disambiguation list are we updating and keeping?

I vote for "beast Master", so that we can move "The Beast Master (trope)" back to "The Beast Master". It was moved to make room for a disambiguation page that didn't need room made for it, after all - may as well put the trope page back, IMHO.

Tell you what, I completely forgot I did that.

But yeah, voting the same as you here.

Beast Master actually redirects to Beastmaster, so you've got theoretically three pages to clean up.

That said, I agree. Put the disambiguation page on Beast Master. Maybe make Beastmaster a disambiguation page of its own, pointing at The Beastmaster and BeastMaster (TV series), too...

And done, five months after consensus was reached, except that "Beastmaster" redirects to "Beast Master" because we never discussed that one.

Yes, the mods really are that busy.

I'm thinking it could use a name change to avoid ambiguity with other works sharing its title, but I can't think of one...

Master of Beasts?

A bit samey, but it'll do if I can't think of anything else. Beast Tamer is okayish as well, I think

I think that "The Beast Master" is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Why not go with that?

The works listed on the page are "Beastmaster", not "Beast Master"...