[WikiEN-l] Listspace

[Gurch]

Steve Block wrote:
> 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

You may find this previous discussion on the subject helpful: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyam_Bihari/List_Namespace

-Gurch