I personally support abolishing support for subpages in the software. But some people (GWO, AV) seem to disagree. So I have a proposal: if there is a lack of consensus on whether or not we should get rid of subpages, why not have a vote on it? I have noticed that nupedia-l has held votes on stuff to do with Nupedia (although since I've never been involved in that list, just had a quick peek at the archives, I don't know the details of how they operate...)
We could simply appoint someone as returning officer (hereafter RO) (I think LMS acted as RO for nupedia-l; if he wants to he could do it for this as well; otherwise I'd be willing to do it, or anyone else who wishes to step forward can). We agree on precisely what the question is, i.e. "the support for subpages that exists in the current Wikipedia software shall not be implemented in the new Wikipedia software", and then everyone emails their vote (yes or no; I think we should try to avoid maybes or "its more complicated than that" votes) to the RO. The RO then tabulates the votes and posts the result to the mailing list. (I'd also recommend the RO posting who voted each way -- that way we can ensure against fraud.)
We could have the vote on Wikipedia itself, the only problem there is that fraud would be far too easy. Doing it by email is safer. But we still should notify the election and the result on Wikipedia itself, for the sake of Wikipedians who don't participate in this mailing list.
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