[WikiEN-l] Article subpages

[Risker]

On 02/09/2008, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm working on a proposal to try to add some sanity to our notability
> procedures, and to better organize our coverage of areas where we
> have, essentially, multiple articles on a single topic. It uses a
> template-based system that duplicates much of the functionality of
> subpages.
>
> More about it later - I'm still working on some aspects of it. All I
> want to know for now is what the logic was on deprecating subpages in
> the article space, and what the technical decision to turn off
> MediaWiki's subpages means for content issues.
>
> That is, is the decision to turn off subpages just at technical
> decision because of the problem it causes for articles like [[OS/2]]?
> Is there a consensus on the content issues of subpages? What is this
> consensus, and where can I read its forming so that I can make my
> proposal adhere to it, or make it so that accepting my proposal
> definitely and clearly alters it?


There are some real advantages to this concept, Phil. Interestingly, a
similar idea has recently been bandied about by User:Joopercoopers, as can
be seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Joopercoopers/Tabbed_articles

Perhaps the two of you could work together on this, particularly after the
technical questions have been answered.

Risker