[WikiEN-l] Moving the Main Page

[PeruvianLlama]

Mark Ryan wrote:
> Which specific part of [[WP:NAME]] is it in violation of? Could you
> please point us to it?
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>  Is there something else called "Main Page" that deserves an
> article that is currently missing out? Is there a technical inability
> to produce main-namespace-only article dumps that do not include the
> Main Page? Or is it just the same old pedantry?
>   
Good questions, and I support the label of "pedantry" if the only reason 
to be had for moving the Main Page is that it "violates" any suffix of 
WP:. But what are we to do if something does come along that deserves an 
article called "Main Page"? Civilization at large may somehow struggle 
through, but if most of the concerns so far raised about it being too 
much of a hassle to move are in fact legit, then isn't this just going 
to get worse for Wikipedia? What I mean to say is that if moving the 
Main Page right now will be a pain because of server strain and 
internal/external link updating, then does it not follow that this will 
be even more of a pain once we have another year's worth of edit 
histories, and another year's worth of internal/external links floating 
around? And by extension, it will be all the more worse with five years' 
worth, and ten years' worth, etc.

I guess that ultimately, we can just cross that bridge when we come to 
it. This is the reason for consistency however; not just for its own 
sake, but because by sacrificing present consistency even in small and 
seemingly harmless amounts, we open ourselves to the possibility of a 
bigger headache somewhere down the road.

Cheers,
 - PeruvianLlama