[Mediawiki-l] Subpages in main namespace?

[Angela]

On 3/23/06, Birger <bweynants at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is the option to make subpages in the main namespaces not enabled by
> default? Is there something wrong with making subpages into the main
> namespace?

There's some old discussion which might help to explain it on Meta:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_against_subpages
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Get_rid_of_subpages_entirely

Angela.