On 23 January 2012 00:44, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 22 January 2012 23:39, Svip
<svippy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The name 'talk page' is also a terrible
name and very ambiguous as to
what it is. A far more appropriate candidate for such a page's name
would be 'collaboration page', 'work page', 'improvement page'
and so
on.
English Wikinews calls it "collaboration". On English Wikipedia it
used to be called "talk", this was changed to "discussion", and it
was
recently changed back to "talk".
I know this. But neither of "talk" or "discussion" refers to the
actual purpose of the page. It rather refers how the page is
functioning. Like calling it "Cellular phone" rather than "Mobile
phone", because naming it after the technology it uses is far more
descriptive than its benefits for users? Classic English. It's a
dust sucker, not a vacuum cleaner.