(This is a policy discussion and should be on wikipedia-l, not wikitech-l.)
Erik Moeller wrote:
Um .. how about just getting rid of it? Why is it within Wikipedia's mission to somehow provide storage space for personal essays? We're an encyclopedia, not a hosting provider.
Right, but...
It's pretty easy to say, with no insult or offense offered, or taken, that a particular piece is "not encyclopedic". So it's easy to boot stuff out of the article namespace into somewhere else.
But the next step, i.e. we allow meta discussion of some kinds, but not if it's "personal", is problematic. People want to write about their own views of how wikipedia should operate, etc. And that's fine, that's what meta is for. If that tends to allow people to also write about other topics, well, I'm reluctant to get into policing it at that level.
As you've surely noticed, I have a rather full plate just trying to keep the murder rate law around here. :-)
--Jimbo