Mark Ryan wrote:
Which specific part of [[WP:NAME]] is it in violation of? Could you please point us to it?
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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?
Good questions, and I support the label of "pedantry" if the only reason to be had for moving the Main Page is that it "violates" any suffix of WP:. But what are we to do if something does come along that deserves an article called "Main Page"? Civilization at large may somehow struggle through, but if most of the concerns so far raised about it being too much of a hassle to move are in fact legit, then isn't this just going to get worse for Wikipedia? What I mean to say is that if moving the Main Page right now will be a pain because of server strain and internal/external link updating, then does it not follow that this will be even more of a pain once we have another year's worth of edit histories, and another year's worth of internal/external links floating around? And by extension, it will be all the more worse with five years' worth, and ten years' worth, etc.
I guess that ultimately, we can just cross that bridge when we come to it. This is the reason for consistency however; not just for its own sake, but because by sacrificing present consistency even in small and seemingly harmless amounts, we open ourselves to the possibility of a bigger headache somewhere down the road.
Cheers, - PeruvianLlama