On 2/6/07, ikiroid ikiroid@gmail.com wrote:
Well, while we're on the topic of namespace, why can't the reference desk be in a different namespace? I doesn't really pertain to wikipedia, so the Help: section or a new mainspace would be a better location.
Because that would lend support to the argument that people are going namespace crazy. Certainly there are practical limits (aside from the technical limits on "Project)" by which a help: namespace doesnt seem unreasonable.
Recall that making a new namespace just serves the purpose of isolating stuff thats meta from the main namespace for the encyclopedia. The idea of dividing up the meta namespace is based in the idea that save keystrokes (like Eskimos vs "Eskimo people") and therefore it will somehow be more appealing and get more use. Whether that is true or not is debatable according to different peoples views about how cost/benefit.
Technically speaking, I think it would look snazzy. -SV