I don't know where I read it, but I think I saw somewhere that in fact an exception was made for the main page BECAUSE moving it would be so intrusive for its history and all the links. If you move it, it just creates another problem with lots of deadlinks.
What advantage can be had in moving it instead of following a rule for which exceptions can be made?
Mgm
On 1/14/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/14/07, Gary Kirk gary.kirk@gmail.com wrote:
Someone's got into their head that having it in mainspace is a "violation of Wikipedia policy", and suggests it be moved into the comparatively new Portal namespace, like [[Current events]] was.
*Moving* the main page may be problematic, but it's pretty clear that it shouldn't be in main article space, as it's not an article about anything. If for some reason we didn't have one, and a proposal was put forward today, it would almost certainly be put in either Wikipedia: or Portal: space. Thus, not so much a "violation of Wikipedia policy", as being inconsistent with existing naming conventions and namespace conventions.
Steve
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