I've noticed a excellent trend towards achieving consistency lately. The WikiProject was an attempt to instill some consistency back in the days when achieving that was (software-wise) far more difficult. As you pointed out it did not adequately include naming conventions.

I think a namespace for such things would be beneficial. I actually don't care what the namespace, as long as it is easy to use. A "Wikiproject" namespace has a few arguments for it - it's obviously NOT an article topic (unlike "conventions" or similar). Also a lot of work has already been done using this name so changing it would take some editing.

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:42:06 +0100
From: tarquin <tarquin@planetunreal.com>
To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] hello list; WikiProject
Reply-To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com

hello all.
I'd like to volunteer for the moving of WikiProject & associated pages
over to Wikipedia: namespace.
before I do, though, could I ask for thoughts on a different name?
I suggest something like "presentation schemes", to stand alongside
"naming conventions"
alternatively, should "naming conventions" be absorbed into
WikiProjects? the original proposal is about naming schemes as well as
consistent content presentation.

Another question: is there a main page of some sort for the Wikipedia:
namespace? Should there be?

tarquin