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Conclusions of the discussion in a nutshell: All disambiguators that are not part of the rocket or missile's official name should be in parenthesis Titles for missiles should follow one of the following formats (in order of preference) [Official designation] [Name] (eg PGM-17 Thor) [Name] or [Official designation], if one is not available (eg. V-2) [Name] (missile) or [Official designation] (missile) if one is not available, and the other is ambiguous (eg R-36 (missile) Local designations should take precedence over NATO and US Library of Congress designations (eg. R-7 Semyorka not SS-6 Sapwood) Families of rockets should be disambiguated using (rocket family) where there is ambiguity Individual rockets should be disambiguated using {rocket) when there is ambiguity When there is no ambiguity, there should be no disambiguation Within families of rockets, there should be an overview article for the family, and individual articles for the variants In some cases subgroups of a family can have their own articles

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This is a discussion page for the proposal to bring rocket article namings into some form of a logical order. Moves to bluelinked articles are over redirect unless otherwise stated. I'm not entirely sure whether "rocket" or "(rocket)" should be the standard disambiguator, but either way is an improvement. --GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 08:53, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I prefer ()'s, you can use the link trick. BTW, Saturn (rocket family) covers two major designs and several redesigns, so simply (rocket) doesn't seem appropriate. Maury (talk) 03:51, 5 June 2008 (UTC)