You, Jimmy Wales, were spotted writing this on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:39:26PM -0600:
First of all, let me apologize to everyone for even having this conversation. I really wasn't aware of all that had gone before, including the fact that Larry had already made a decision based on existing consensus.
I believe this is an incorrect characterization of the issue. Larry made the decision, but it was not based on any existing consensus.
(this isn't meant to criticize Larry's decision, although I happen to think it's misguided; it's meant to be a statement of facts as they are).
I'll note in passing an uncanny resemblance of all arguments Jimmy has advanced in favor of subpages to all arguments I made on the Wikipedia discussion pages regarding the same; considering that Jimmy apparently didn't read these pages, the coincidence is remarkable.
I stopped discussing this particular issue on Wikipedia after seeing that all discussions led nowhere.