On 2/24/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/24/06, Anthony DiPierro
<wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
In any case, you didn't answer my question. You said that killing the
user namespace would "instantly kill all the notes I keep on my wiki
projects. And all the links I
keep for easy access so I don't have to search to find stuff." But
why can't your notes and links be kept in the project namespace?
Surely doing that wouldn't cause thousands of random personal notes in
the project space randomly edited by anyone who comes by. We're just
talking about your notes. They aren't random, are they?
If anyone could edit the notes I am keeping they lose their value.
I guess you're one of the minority of users that has a protected user
page? If so, I guess you have a point, though I thought even user
pages were supposed to be editable by all, in theory.
They're structured the way they are because
it's helpful to me. If
anyone
could edit them they soon become random because
others don't necessarily
see
the logic behind the structure I'm using.
Mgm
Most user pages are already editable by anyone. Yet somehow people
manage to not step all over each other. Funny how that works.
Anthony
That's the whole idea why I like userpages - somehow people don't trip each
other up. Mine is not protected, yet few feel the urge to edit it. On the
few rare occasions someone did, it was to fix some typos or to inform me an
idea I had listed had been written. (And they were all kind enough to inform
me) The fact it's a userpage which "belongs" to someone makes people a lot
more considerate when editing someone's personal notes and sandboxes.
I don't see the same thing happening in any other namespace.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I don't like to go and suggest
extreme ideas when less invasive things can be tried first. No doubt there's
going to be people with different views.
Mgm