Talk:United States Exploring Expedition

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Is the appended date really necessary? I thought there was only one expedition ever called "United States Exploring Expedition". Stan 04:41, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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The appended date isn't absolutely necessary. It seemed like a good idea, though, in order to help readers note the context more quickly. Also, it provides more info to search on when doing Google searches on article titles. Herodotos 02:47, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The usual rule is to use the shortest unambiguous title for articles, if for no other reason than to increase the chance that random references from elsewhere will connect - we have a problem with people creating dups because they see a red link and don't realize that the real article is under a slightly different name (I fixed up a mistaken dup creation just this morning). Google searches hit on content just as much as title, so titling can be set to favor our internal linking activity. Stan 03:06, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Good point, and thanks for the heads-up on policy. I don't mind renaming the article, if that will improve consistency. Or would it be easier at this point to create a "Redirect" to the shorter title? Herodotos 04:35, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)