On 21/12/2007, Nathan Awrich nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a technical reason why 'breakout' articles can't be article subpages? In that way they wouldn't be articles in themselves, but subsets of other articles, and you could judge the notability of an article in whole without judging its individual components separately. Maybe a worry that a proliferation of article subpages would make things unmanageable?
If by "technical reason" you mean something to do with the code behind the site, no, not at all. Subpages work, we just made the choice a long time ago not to use them. A subpage is really just a page with a slash in the title, the fact that's it's a subpage only causes a few very minor changes in how things work.
If a subject is worth a subarticle, it's worth an article, IMHO, I don't really see how having a slash in the name makes a big enough difference.