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Currently, if you want to get to the real world BBC, you have to laboriously type British Broadcasting Corporation, because BBC means "the Corporation as it's treated in the DWU".
This is plainly silly, because
- The Corporation is known by both names in-universe and out
- The most common usage on the site is to indicate the real world Corporation, so it should have the acronym for ease of typing.
- Many new users don't even know that there's a distinction, and so naturally reach for BBC to mean the real world entity.
This is evidenced by Special:WhatLinksHere/BBC, which shows that most of the links really are meant for the real world page. This distinction is a bit too fine for most users to grasp, since the logical assumption would be that BBC is a redirect for British Broadcasting Company.
So I think we should combine the pages and do an "inversion" of the normal order. Have the page mainly be a real world page, but then have a "In the DWU" section. We already do this kind of thing on a number of pages for people who are normally a part of the production staff, but who end up in the DWU, like John Lucarotti and Sean Longcroft. I don't really see a logical reason why we should handle the people who have this dual existence differently than the company that employed those people.
Does anyone have a problem with merging these two articles?