[Wikimedia-l] crazy deletionists!

[Andreas Kolbe]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:49 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4 July 2012 00:48, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
>
> > There's nothing that prevents a subject from having an article in both
> > namespaces.  One can be seen as the complement of the other; mainspace
> would
> > become more encyclopedic and there would be a neat space where the more
> > recent coverage can be found for further information.
>
>
> We could call it "Wikinews".
>


Wikinews is story-based, rather than subject-based. It was never intended
to have just a single article on each subject. So this would be a complete
re-purposing of Wikinews (which might not be a bad idea).