From: kband@www.llamacom.com
Why should I have to do that if it can be automated?
Putting in many days of work into making the most popular entries on the site (pat pat) is ridiculous. Having automatic functionality making that work easier isn't.
You are right, and ridiculous is certainly not a word that I would have used. But the thing is that by making such things easier we also stimulate the creation of subpages which, as Larry will explain to you if his wife lets him, :-), is something that we'd rather not have in Wikipedia. Maybe you don't agree with that, but then you should try to convince Larry and the rest of the Wikipedia-gang that subpages are a good thing. That won't be easy.
Actually, to my knowledge LMS is just about the only one who's strongly anti-subpages in any form (look for the previous discussion on this issue). If he's still the final arbiter of all Wikipedia functionality, then this is a moot point. If, however, we're back to policy by consensus, then it won't be too hard. But Mr. Wales needs to tell us what the story is there.
-tc