On Thursday, March 31, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Tomer Chachamu wrote:
Such as what? I cannot see the disadvantage to putting these pages in the Template namespace. Also, a secondary syntax could be made, like that old {{msg:}} syntax. {{msg:Box}} would include [[Box]], not [[Template:Box]].
It's quite common to include all kinds of pages using the template mechanism that aren't in the template namespace. For example, look at [[en:Wkipedia:Votes for deletion]]. Everything is included via the template mechanism, but it's all stuff that shouldn't be kept in the template space.
There are numerous other examples of interesting hacks using the template thing.
Ben