On 10/12/05, M. Creidieki Crouch creidieki@gmail.com wrote:
Could we make a separate namespace for all of the AfD archives? Right now, [[Special:Randompage/Wikipedia]] only gives me AfD pages, and doing a search in the Wikipedia namespace is near impossible. We could call it "Deletion" and only put the AfD stuff in it, or we could call it "Archives" and put some other stuff in it (FAC, RFA).
I think the idea is good, but neither of those names quite hits the nail on the head - there are all sorts of archives which shouldn't be in there, and no reason to have to move pages *into* the "archive" space rather than creating them in the first place. [Indeed, performing such moves would require admin access whatever the permissions of the namespace, as the point would be somewhat lost if we didn't delete the redirects afterwards]
Meanwhile, Magnus has begun work on finally automating such pages completely [see http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-December/043073.html], and has called the corresponding namespace "Tasks", which I think seems a very sensible name (although the actual tasks currently have ugly numeric names, which needs fixing IMHO).
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]