Board Thread:Policies/@comment-10473115-20160220115220/@comment-1895174-20160404050247

AnnabellRice wrote: "Susan Storm" didn't show up on the first page or two of Google results, so minor tweaks will hopefully improve that. Actually, Googling "Susan Storm" directly brings you to the Invisible Woman. Googling "Susan Richards" mostly gets you an author named Susan Richards. The front page only has one result for the Invisible Woman. Google even suggests you search for Susan Storm instead if you're looking up the FF character.

If maximizing the results of a Google search is a priority, the page should absolutely be titled "Susan Storm." Or at least "Sue Storm." Richards is too common a surname, so any Google search for that character that includes that as part of her name will always have real people named "Susan Richards" mixed in.

I don't have too many problems with the current naming convention. At least, I don't think it needs to be completely overhauled. I think naming clones "Name of Person Cloned (Name of Clone) (Earth-????)" is a bit unwieldy, as is always having to spell out acronyms (especially if the acronym is in something other than English or varies between universes). Maybe we could be a bit more lax about names having to be legally changed since that can often be difficult to prove. And shortened forms of names, too. I honestly do not believe every version of Harry Osborn shortens his name from "Harold." Other than that, I think it's fine. I think we're forgetting that most people will likely just Google the character's codename as opposed to their real name. They'd Google "Hulk" or "Incredible Hulk" before "Bruce Banner" or "Robert Bruce Banner". And the disambiguation pages mostly take care of that. Is it really a problem if a Google search brings people to the disambiguation page as opposed to the page for the Earth-616 version of the character?