[WikiEN-l] Listspace

[Steve Block]

I was looking at the guidance currently offered on overcategorisation, 
which I feel is too prescriptive, and it occurred to me that maybe  a 
list namespace would now be an idea. After all it does have a featured 
process, and it does lend itself to possibilities; lists could be 
transcluded into articles in a similar manner to templates where 
appropriate.  This could perhaps see navigational templates hived out of 
template namespace and allow us to better lockdown template namespace. 
Just some thoughts to toss out for wider discussion.  First problem I 
can see is conflict with Wikipedia is not a collection of indiscriminate 
lists, or whatever it is worded now.  What sparked it is the discussion 
which saw the muppet show guest stars category deleted, when everyone 
agreed it should be listified.  There doesn't seem to be a process for 
listifying a category, and the best time to do it is whern the category 
still exists.  Since that muppet show category was deleted in August, it 
would be very hard to now recreate the information, which to me seems to 
be missing the point of Wikipedia.  We shouldn't delete valuable content 
because the form it is in is wrong, we should rather correct the form it 
is in.  But I suppose that is the problem with process, sometimes it 
overrides the ideas it was built to support.

Steve block


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