Is it possible you misread this, AGK? I don't think he was being skeptical.
I think its an alternative is a good idea - actually I think subpages would be a good idea as well, if a mechanism could be found to deal with articles like OS/2. I've seen the issue discussed a few times over the last year or so, but each time the main reason for shooting it down is the "community consensus" against subpages. Angela's links present an opportunity and an obstacle - if those are the only discussions in which consensus was formed, then there is no "local" en.wp policy against it. The obstacle being, of course, the meta-wiki consensus. If its disabled in MediaWiki, is there an option to enable it or circumvent it technically (using templates, also discussed on [[User_talk:Lar]]) just on en.wp?
Nathan
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:35 PM, AGK agkwiki@googlemail.com wrote:
I don't think there is really any external-to-enwp-policy technical
factor why they should be disabled.
No need to be so sceptical! Phil has ideas for sub pages, and was simply enquiring about why they were turned off and/or if they can be turned back on. I for one would like to see where this idea goes.