Board Thread:Policies/@comment-918732-20150909012404/@comment-25737724-20150909222101

Hatebunny wrote: That said, i'm starting to see some value in the old "Real People" page, that listed appearances of real people in comics. If that were to come back, I would really rather that people didn't add it to comic appearances. It would end up being an orphaned page, and should probably be called "Real People in Comics" or "Historical Figures in Comics" for SEO purposes - if it came back. And I'm not convinced it should. I feel you. I equally waffle on this subject. I just for some reason have a strange dislike of those aggregate pages that should be categories. Probably because they end up out-of-date. Case-in-point is even Kyle's post today about Talk:Justice Society villains. I fully appreciate your mentioned concern of "what should DC cover and how easily". In my opinion: real characters pages is a 'no' as that's wikipedia, appearances of real people in DC comics is a 'yes'. All in my humble opinion of course, I just think there's a categorical way that aligns with existing appearance strategy.

Agreed that if it should stay it should have an SEO rename... but you're still only competing for like 1 search a year. I think your real value is in getting that reporter who doesn't know anything about DC comics and says, "Hmmm, I wonder if Donald Trump has appeared as a satirical representation in any comics" and uses that in some form in her article for the upcoming election as an anecdotal example. Change reporter to be blogger, writer etc. If they use DC wiki and backlink it... that's worth it in my opinion and what you're really after. In which case, long-tail is probably more important for each character...