I´m copying part of an email aethel sent to the gardeners list a few days ago that I think has good points (because she´s on vacation and I don´t know when she´ll have the time to do it herself):
"The current practice of not disambiguating page names until there's more than one page with the same name has two practical considerations:
1. our search function is not the greatest. if the page is disambiguated, but there's no un-ambiguated version, it's harder to reach the page.
2. if the page is disambiguated, but there's no un-ambiguated version, someone is more likely to create a duplicate entry for the same concept. And then no one will be able to find the original page because they will automatically be sent to the un-ambiguated one when they type the page name into the search bar and hit Enter.
Of course, we could solve these issues by creating the basic name [[Podfic Title]] and redirecting it to the disambiguated version [[Podfic Title (podfic)]], but that is an extra step we would need to remember every time a podfic page is created. Livia makes a good point about not privileging one fanwork type over another. We don't add qualifiers to page names for any other type of fanwork either, so adding the (podfic) could seem like saying Fanlore doesn't think podfic is a real fanwork. And we do think it is a real and valuable type of fanwork! On the other hand, if podficcers themselves think podfic pages need to have the (podfic) in the title, maybe that's a good enough reason to include it. PPOV in action?"
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"The current practice of not disambiguating page names until there's more than one page with the same name has two practical considerations:
1. our search function is not the greatest. if the page is disambiguated, but there's no un-ambiguated version, it's harder to reach the page.
2. if the page is disambiguated, but there's no un-ambiguated version, someone is more likely to create a duplicate entry for the same concept. And then no one will be able to find the original page because they will automatically be sent to the un-ambiguated one when they type the page name into the search bar and hit Enter.
Of course, we could solve these issues by creating the basic name [[Podfic Title]] and redirecting it to the disambiguated version [[Podfic Title (podfic)]], but that is an extra step we would need to remember every time a podfic page is created. Livia makes a good point about not privileging one fanwork type over another. We don't add qualifiers to page names for any other type of fanwork either, so adding the (podfic) could seem like saying Fanlore doesn't think podfic is a real fanwork. And we do think it is a real and valuable type of fanwork! On the other hand, if podficcers themselves think podfic pages need to have the (podfic) in the title, maybe that's a good enough reason to include it. PPOV in action?"