[Wikipedia-l] No subpages. Is that your final answer?

[Gareth Owen]

Michel Clasquin <clasqm at mweb.co.za> writes:

> Against.  I've found occasional good uses for "prefix[[snafu]]suffix" that 
> I don't want to lose - for instance it is possible to say [[peace]]fully 
> or [[peace|peacefully]] and they link to the same page. 

I don't follow.  Or rather, I can't see any good uses.  Can you enlighten me? 

> But an adjective or adverb as a link doesn't look right in an encyclopedia
> context.

Maybe not, but does [[peace]]fully look any better?
 
> IMHO there's far too much talk about letting the software do all the work
> lately ...

Is that not what software is for?

(very OT aside:  I blame GUIs. I see so many people doing repetitive tasks
    manually with Windows file manager that I can see why people don't
    classify computers as labour-saving devices any more.)
-- 
Gareth Owen
"Wikipedia does rock.  By the count on the "brilliant prose" page, there
 are 14 not-bad articles so far" -- Larry Sanger (12 Jan 2001)