I think the best argument against subpages in Wikipedia is that it removes a
whole set of arguments from the table (is "Biochemistry" a subpage of
"Biology" or of "Chemistry"? Who decides? Should I add a page as its
own
main page or as a subpage of something else?). There's less useless
controversy letting the links within pages (including "what links here")
specify the information relationships.
In non-encyclopedia contexts, you may have information architectures that
are best expressed using main-space subpages. If so, it isn't hard to set
up.
-- Joshua
On 3/22/06 8:32 AM, "jdd" <jdd(a)dodin.org> wrote:
Angela wrote:
On 3/23/06, Birger <bweynants(a)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.
this discussion don't seems (to me) very factual. much "I
don't like", with little reasons.
I use extensively sub pages as soon as an article begin to
be too big to be reasonable to have in one page or to write
courses or big howtos.
I don't give any category to sub-pages, only to the main
one, like that one.
http://fr.opensuse.org/GĂ©rer_ses_photographies
jdd