I think the best argument against subpages in Wikipedia is that it removes a whole set of arguments from the table (is "Biochemistry" a subpage of "Biology" or of "Chemistry"? Who decides? Should I add a page as its own main page or as a subpage of something else?). There's less useless controversy letting the links within pages (including "what links here") specify the information relationships.
In non-encyclopedia contexts, you may have information architectures that are best expressed using main-space subpages. If so, it isn't hard to set up.
-- Joshua
On 3/22/06 8:32 AM, "jdd" jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Angela wrote:
On 3/23/06, Birger bweynants@gmail.com wrote:
Why is the option to make subpages in the main namespaces not enabled by default? Is there something wrong with making subpages into the main namespace?
There's some old discussion which might help to explain it on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_against_subpages http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Get_rid_of_subpages_entirely
Angela.
this discussion don't seems (to me) very factual. much "I don't like", with little reasons.
I use extensively sub pages as soon as an article begin to be too big to be reasonable to have in one page or to write courses or big howtos.
I don't give any category to sub-pages, only to the main one, like that one. http://fr.opensuse.org/G%C3%A9rer_ses_photographies
jdd