"Watch this article" and "View article" are clearly wrong and need to be changed. We have a definition for what we consider to be an article and that doesn't include any namespaced pages and also doesn't include many pages in the article:namespace. "Watch this page" is correct in all cases and should be used. "View subject page" is also correct in all cases and should be used.
If this nomenclature we use is internally self-inconsistent then the definitions we use for things become ambiguous and may become useless.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Hi Daniel,
I already replied to your previous request to change "View subject page". Why are you ignoring my reply? "View subject page" is unnecessarily ambiguous -- what is a "subject" page? Imagine you're a new user and you're on a user talk page and then try to get to the user page. Where would you expect that link -- "subject page"? This is not user-friendly. It is not a term people are familiar with. It annoyed me from day one.
If you can think of a better general terminology, I'm for it, otherwise I've put changing the text depending on the context in my to do list. I think that's important for user pages; I consider it fair to call a Wikipedia: page "article" even though it doesn't meet the strict definition -- we're not trying to get a Certificate of Semantics. But if you can think of a nice naming for "View Wikipedia: page", I can add that, too.
As for "Watch this article"->"Watch this page", I have no problem with that. I'll change it.
Regards,
Erik
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