Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-16461120-20160218162200/@comment-10473115-20160218223630

Naming conventions (especially for character pages) is a issue I've thought a long time because I've always felt that's it's too complicated. I've seen a lot of debates what should be a right page name on the cases where I think consensus about the best name could have achieved much more easily. So I would like to propose complete overhaul of page names: That would make linking and navigation on the site easier and help SEO. We already use it on few pages with real name in parenthesis (Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Captain America (Steven Rogers), Thor (Thor Odinson), etc.) and as a test on Google, I found Thor on the first page of search results but Daredevil wasn't in the first 25 pages. Search of Matt Murdock resulted to number one link. Same thing with Cable at the bottom of the third page but Nathan Summers resulted to first link and even Cable's disambig page to number two. Even our own site's search engine comes up with disambiguation or alt universe pages. I tried it with Deadpool and first Wade Wilson character page was at the bottom of results and linked to Wade Wilson (Earth-TRN321).
 * Page name should be character's most well known name/title

It should be default, a disambiguation or alternative universes should be in parenthesis instead. For the the same reasons as above.
 * Earth-616 should be omitted from the page names

We should also consider about using descriptive image names for SEO reasons (see more about that HERE) but I'm not sure. I think that we have a quite good image naming system.

If you think that this idea is not preposterous, we could ask from the company how these changes would affect our SEO, and if it would help to gain traffic to the site, I think that they could give a bot and technical assistance for these changes.

Sorry Annabell, for kind of hijacking this thread but I think this must be discussed first because it would make Madelyne Pryor to just Madelyne Pryor, as beauty lies in simplicity.