Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-32767830-20190908182120/@comment-25356303-20190910232315

I reached out to FishTank, who said that the SEO impact associated with this would not be too significant. However, he was speaking in the context of a page naming system that we do not use; subpages, e.g. The Adabal-a/Skyrim (rather than The Adabal-a (Skyrim)). The SEO impact would apparently be slightly greater with our current naming scheme.

''That content duplication is minimal, under the circumstances, but the original textual content should be on the base page, and textual deviations and variant data on the subpages. You can even transclude, if the narrative is 100% the same.''

We've effectively come to the SEO conclusion that qualified articles (e.g. "FooBar (episode)") works when it's a different content entity or means a totally independent and different thing than the base page, but that subpages should be used for dependent articles that illustrate or deviate but are strongly related to the base page.

So another question here would be whether we want to use a subpage system for books or not. What are people's thoughts on that?