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I was about the move the content of this article to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when I realized that a far more recognizable title would be Alice in Wonderland. Google agrees with me here, so unless somebody gives me a good reason not to, then I will move the content to the more recognizable title, have the less recognizable titles redirect to Alice in Wonderland and mention the more official title in the first line of the article (per the general statement on wikipedia naming conventions). However, before I do that I need to know if this book is really better known as Alice in Wonderland or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? The former may be a popularization based on movie titles, so a good argument can be made to have Alice in Wonderland simply be a disambiguation page. Any thoughts? --maveric149

I hate to be a stickler (yeah, right!), but the name of the book is Alice's Adventures... If people do a search on Alice in Wonderland, won't it still come up? Why encourage misinformation by putting an incorrect title (although the film would be A in W)? JHK

Technically correct titles are really secondary to what the greatest number of English speakers will know and recognize - unless - there is an ambiguity issue. It is this second point that concerns me here and I think I am inclinded to go with the technically correct title because it is less ambiguous than Alice in Wonderland and is also widely known and used (although not as much as A in W). Alice in Wonderland should be a disambiguation page listing the movies and should be cross linked with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Maybe the Alice in Wonderland page could eventually become an article about the differences between the book and the various movies and short stories that are based on the book. --maveric149