The mailing lists are for policy nerds, techies and masochists. Article- related discussions already take place on the respective talk pages, and for user help there's the Village Pump. I've already stated that I agree the discussion system on talk pages needs improvements - give me money and I will fix it.
Heh...give me an admin account and *I( will fix it.
check this out:http://zesty.ca/criticons/
Then I summarized most of the issues here: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_media (also on top level meta homepage).
discussion should continue on both media.
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