On 02/09/2008, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
I'm working on a proposal to try to add some sanity to our notability procedures, and to better organize our coverage of areas where we have, essentially, multiple articles on a single topic. It uses a template-based system that duplicates much of the functionality of subpages.
More about it later - I'm still working on some aspects of it. All I want to know for now is what the logic was on deprecating subpages in the article space, and what the technical decision to turn off MediaWiki's subpages means for content issues.
That is, is the decision to turn off subpages just at technical decision because of the problem it causes for articles like [[OS/2]]? Is there a consensus on the content issues of subpages? What is this consensus, and where can I read its forming so that I can make my proposal adhere to it, or make it so that accepting my proposal definitely and clearly alters it?
There are some real advantages to this concept, Phil. Interestingly, a similar idea has recently been bandied about by User:Joopercoopers, as can be seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Joopercoopers/Tabbed_articles
Perhaps the two of you could work together on this, particularly after the technical questions have been answered.
Risker