But it IS a problem that -nv ( = NON-verbose) causes to have this junk printed anyway regardless of whatever!

2014-09-01 13:23:00 URL:http://whatever.url.this.may.be [98765] -> "-" [1]

And it is a problem that you HAVE to send the output to /dev/null first to stop this!

At least they should give us a -nvv alternative option or whatever that will suppress this by default.
Users are not interested in manually suppressing data junk deemed "important" by some tech geeks. Yes, it's the same ones constantly having live log file consoles on their desktop and those that always "need to know" when some global hotkey has been set. This justifies (oh-yes!) pagefuls of debug information with console apps because that is oh-so important.

$ wget -nv ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz >/dev/null

2011-07-23 16:07:09 URL: ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz [9856388] -> "Packages.gz" [1]

$ echo $?
0

That message was not an error (or warning), so it should not have been
printed on stderr, but on stdout. Printing it on stderr makes it hard to
filter out informative messages and keep the errors; if the errors and
normal messages were separated to stderr and stdout respectively, a simple

>/dev/null would work.

http://bugs.debian.org/141323