Should we change veg*n questions to vegan/vegetarian ? (for search engines)

Question

I've recently answered this question (Are most electronics veg*n?), and while making further researches I realized that I never ran into this post itself on search engines (except on DuckDuckGo which had an older reference to the post, while it still included "vegan" in it's title).

This means that if someone is searching for this topic on most search engines, they will not find the result on vegetarianism.SE, which is - in my opinion - a bit absurd (having less web-visibility for a more compact title).

So... shouldn't we avoid using 'veg*n' in post titles and use instead 'vegan/vegetarian' (and also renaming existing questions) ?

Answer 1

Yes, that would probably be reasonable.

I see no reason not to keep using veg*n as a shortened version for post bodies, but it should be edited out of titles. Most people won't know what it means, since I'm fairly certain it's specific to this site.

If you see any posts using this in the title, feel free to edit them out and replace them with "vegan/vegetarian", or something else if something else makes more sense.