Board Thread:Policies/@comment-31722073-20181113022211/@comment-3361105-20190125034446

SeanWheeler wrote: There are people who hate exceptions and especially exceptions to characters they find overrated. And we don't know for sure how the SEO stuff works. I fail to see how the existence of those people in itself justifies making policy changes to accommodate their particular sensitivity. There's plenty more than pagenames that are inconsistent or require exceptions on this site - and it's more because the work we do here is herding cats, not cattle.

Also, I know how SEO works, because I thought, once upon a time, "gosh, this inconsistency of page-naming is weird. I wonder why we do that," and then I read about it, and I talked with people here, and I talked to people from Wikia, and I came to understand that anything that boosts the wiki's SEO is good for the wiki, regardless of how it makes obsessive compulsive nerds like us feel. Editors are the minority. Readers are the silent majority.

SeanWheeler wrote: Booster Gold didn't need it for his non-SEO article to get the third spot. I already explained why this is the case. Booster Gold is not a multi-million-dollar enterprise, nor a source of much online news or content. An SEO title for him would be like advertising shoes when you have a monopoly on shoes and everybody who can see your ad needs shoes. The same is not true for batman. It would certainly help Booster Gold to have an SEO-friendly pagename, but it's help it doesn't need, unless we want to get really competitive about being the first result on google.