--- Gareth Owen wiki@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
In which case I'd like to express my vehement opposition to this view.
And now I'd like to take a stab at countering complaints.
Television/Band, Nirvana/Band and Catatonia/Band...
Television (band), Nirvana (band) and Catatonia (band) are all better page titles. I seem to remember reading that UseModWiki was going to allow parentheses in titles at some point. Now I hope the PHP software supports this.
[[Baseball/History]] (especially from [[Baseball/World Series]]...)
[[History of Baseball]] and [[Baseball World Series]] are synonymous.
Similarly /Talk pages are great...
But the separate talk: namespace is even better.
The failing of subpages is that there is no clear policy for naming them.
I think the concept of subpages is flawed in an encyclopedia. Why limit ourselves to a primitive hierarchical structure? Eliminating subpages paves the way for the implementation of even better navigation features.
I would like to see wiki software that allows for enumeration of generic terms that would trigger navigation links to appear on article pages automatically. It's a natural consequence of [[Wikipedia is not paper|Wikipedia not being paper]]. Using the baseball articles as examples, "baseball" should be tagged as one of those generic terms. Then any page with "baseball" in the title would get a link to the [[Baseball]] article, and the [[Baseball]] article would list links to all the other baseball articles.
Going even farther, maybe "See also:" should be handled specially. I can't think of how it would work, though.
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