On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> wrote:
There's nothing that prevents a subject from
having an article in both
namespaces. One can be seen as the complement of the other; mainspace would
become more encyclopedic and there would be a neat space where the more
recent coverage can be found for further information.
It'd only be a matter of educating editors and readers; the mainspace is the
most reliable and seriously sourced "base" of articles, at the cost of being
possibly a bit dated or drier. The space "below the fold" is more timely,
and possibly more detailed at the cost of being possibly less reliable.
This is a good idea, and you can take it further, as suggested in the
past: we need a space in which one can draft verifiable articles
about any topic, without arguments about notability.
Just as Wikipedia was a 'simple, unreliable scratch space' to let
everyone draft articles for nupedia, we need the same sort of space to
let everyone draft articles for [what we currently think of as]
wikipedia.
SJ