Thread:FauxCerf/@comment-26818419-20151025001127/@comment-26143371-20151025114656

The main benefit I see is that it avoids typos especially for pages with long titles. I agree that for pages like Apu or Tree it isn't very useful or important. How likely is it to mistype these words?!

The second reason I see turned out to rather be a theoretical one: When renaming pages all references to the pagename get updated automatically. However, practically the main reason to rename pages is that an anonymous contributor or a member with very low edit count created them. Unfortunately those are the people who don't use  anyway. So we don't gain anything from it.

What we also could do (and what I actually regularly do), is to use  instead. It will substitute the call to the  magic-word with the actual name of the page when the edit gets saved (instead of each time the page gets translated to html). This way we still have the typo safety, but the pages' sources might become more readable.