On 10/30/11 9:52 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 30 October 2011 17:44, Brandon
Harris<bharris(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
(One of my favorite things about talk
pages is that, for most people,
*there is no talk page button*. There's a "Discussion" tab. So when
someone says "Hey, just leave me a message on my talk page and I'll help
you out!" that means. . . nothing.)
Perhaps we should apply the Common Name
policy to the interface as
well as article titles.
I noticed that. We constantly refer to talk pages as "talk pages", and
yet somebody in his wisdom chose to use "Discussion" in the link. There
is a certain level of synonymy between "talk" and "discuss", but
someone
who has been told to go to the "talk page" will respond to that
instruction very literally, and look for a very specific link. Even more
so if he is a newby or not a native English speaker.
Ray