lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
There is a concern, I suppose, that it might limit our ability to create real namespaces (and interwiki names) later, in that if we decide to create, say, a "Fred" namespace, any previously existing articles that happen to be named "Fred:..." may have to be changed, but I think a simple convention not to use colons for things other than titles that naturally contain them will minimize that problem, and creating a new namespace is such a major change anyway that having to fix a few article titles won't be much of a problem.
O.k., I can see it either way. But isn't it pretty easy to just disallow colons in article titles, if that's going to be our "simple convention" anyway?
--Jimbo