<p>Recently I wanted to mark a duplicate of a question about defining maximum likelihood, but was unable to find the "main" question since it used "MLE" in title rather then "maximum likelihood" (<a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/112451/mle-in-layman-terms">Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) in layman terms</a>). Finally someone merged the initial question, the one that I suggested as a duplicate, and the one that I refer to in the link.</p>

<p>If there exist (and they do) questions that are prone to be duplicated, like the one I refer to, wouldn't it be a good idea to slightly edit their titles to be more informative and easier to find via search? In this case I would edit "MLE" and changed it to "maximum likelihood (MLE)" however there were discussions on if it is good to make such edits or not.</p>

<p>What do you think? Of course, I understand that "minor edit" could be easily misunderstood and abused.</p>

<p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>

<p>OK, there doesn't seem to be disagreement in here so I edited this title.</p>
