Board Thread:Policies/@comment-31722073-20181113022211/@comment-3361105-20190123220559

SeanWheeler wrote: No, they shouldn't be expanded. disagree.

SeanWheeler wrote: That would cause a lot of fights in the wiki with users wanting their favorite characters to get the SEO titles.

Or one fight, on a policy thread, where one user keeps claiming that we shouldn't have them at all, over and over, despite every indication that they are important.

SeanWheeler wrote: I think we should abandon the SEO titles altogether. Oh, would you look at that.

SeanWheeler wrote: There is a small chance of DC announcing a reboot in the comics interrupting our work. Thence, why the most culturally significant versions of the characters have had the SEO pagenames, to date... But also, So?

SeanWheeler wrote: So nope, no SEO titles. All the characters on New Earth should be "Birth Name (New Earth)" and all characters on Prime Earth should be "Birth Name (Prime Earth)" Disagree. See also: we're already moving against that, by moving Bartholomew to Barry - and rightly so.

SeanWheeler wrote: All the old SEO titles should redirect to the Prime Earth pages before they disappear from google. I might be wrong, but I suspect that placing these titles on redirects will cause google (and any other reputable search engine) to ignore them. full stop. So, your suggestion is, basically, to make characters like Aquaman - who are only known by their superhero alias, outside of comic book superfandom, harder to find on search engines, and to waste time renaming redirects to pagenames that have no beneficial effect for us.

The horse you've hitched your wagon to is dead, and y'all won't quit beating it.