On 15/01/07, en: Firefoxman enwpmail@gmail.com wrote:
It is in violation of [[WP:NAME]]
Firefoxman
Which specific part of [[WP:NAME]] is it in violation of? Could you please point us to it?
Even if there is such a provision in the naming conventions, the Main Page is much too important for any such prior decision (by a handful of people to institute such a convention) to stick without first consulting a much broader cross-section of the project.
The Main Page has been at its current title since January 2002. Before that it was called "HomePage", and was also in the main namespace, as were all user pages (and all talk pages, as subpages). There were no namespaces.
What is the rationale for shifting the Main Page out of the main namespace? Is there something else called "Main Page" that deserves an article that is currently missing out? Is there a technical inability to produce main-namespace-only article dumps that do not include the Main Page? Or is it just the same old pedantry?
I look eagerly forward to your response.
~Mark Ryan