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== Debate Topics Falling Into Main Namespace ==
== Debate Topics Falling Into Main Namespace ==
I hate to tell everybody, but prefixing "Debate:" in front of various debate-topic titles succeeds only in throwing it back into the Main namespace. Somebody needs to create a new, specific namespace for debate topics. The chief benefit would be to allow people to search for debate topics more readily (in case they didn't get added to the Debate Topics page), and to allow those of us who want to judge people's contributions, to separate article edits from debate postings and judge these separately.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 12:30, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
I hate to tell everybody, but prefixing "Debate:" in front of various debate-topic titles succeeds only in throwing it back into the Main namespace. Somebody needs to create a new, specific namespace for debate topics. The chief benefit would be to allow people to search for debate topics more readily (in case they didn't get added to the Debate Topics page), and to allow those of us who want to judge people's contributions, to separate article edits from debate postings and judge these separately.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 12:30, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
More on this issue, from Sid3050:<blockquote>The problem is not just that the debates are currently bleeding into the mainspace, but also that they will become inaccessible if we create a "Debate"/"Debate talk" namespace set right now. Check out [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Custom_namespaces this link] for reference (just under the first blue-border box).<br><br>The explanation (from what I gather) is: Right now, we got an article with the full name "Debate:Blah". If we then create "Debate" as a namespace, calling "Debate:Blah" will actually show "Blah in the Debate namespace" instead of "Debate:Blah in the Main namespace" - two quite different things.<br><br>So a sysop will have to [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=move&user=&page=&limit=100&offset=0 revert those moves] ''before'' the new namespace is being created. Good news is that there's a "revert" link next to each move. Bad news is that there are many things that have to be reverted.</blockquote>
Something else to consider...--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 13:42, 9 April 2007 (EDT)