Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151201202536/@comment-26402117-20151211234900

Technobliterator wrote: Thanks for the response, Angelina. SEOkitten wrote:

"Avoid repeated or boilerplate titles...

"Brand your titles, but concisely...

This is a reasonable explanation for removing pagetitles - and I imagine, simply moving the "a place for people to meet and mingle" in the example to the main page or something would be the solution there - the only problem is that it does not offer a solution for wikis such as Wookieepedia (despite how well they probably do in SEO regardless, losing "the Star Wars wiki" is probably still a hit), or where the site name causes display issues (such as "Ratchet &amp; Clank wiki" - yes, that appears in the desktop tab). Would allow rare instances of pagetitles, or introducing a character limit, not be a reasonable way to allow these wikis to display a slightly different pagetitle, while not displaying ones that are ultimately more detrimental?

Agreed. On these thoughts about the importance of shorter titles for SEO, I would kindly like to ask Wikia staff will honor requests for the usage of MediaWiki:Pagetitle for wikis which have a valid usage case? Will users be messaging staff through the main contact form for having the pagetitle upheld on a community - or is Special:Contact/wiki-name-change the preffered venue for the team?

With thanks for killing the ridiculously long pagetitles on some communities that are truncated in the browser bookmarks due to their insane length - I usually have that problem with news sites that I bookmark. Hopefully, we can move on to the next step of having the wheat sorted from the chaff with the pagetitle requests.