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I look forward to your response. May you prove to be a worthy foe, unlike many with whom I have sparred on this wiki. Good hunting. [[User:Semicolon|Semicolon]] ([[User talk:Semicolon|talk]]) 07:15, 19 January 2009 (UTC) | I look forward to your response. May you prove to be a worthy foe, unlike many with whom I have sparred on this wiki. Good hunting. [[User:Semicolon|Semicolon]] ([[User talk:Semicolon|talk]]) 07:15, 19 January 2009 (UTC) | ||
:(ec, so some points may be Semi's as well) "The main namespace should be about the games" — And the games are not played by not-people, are they? I.e., this makes them worthy of note, whether as a group of names in a crew, a list of names of minor smashers from X place, or as individual articles, one and all. For "Nobody really cares what crew I join[...]," there's always someone as a matter of probability. I.e., your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_majority appeal to the masses] fails as well as "to common sense". Further, to say your opinion cannot be argued with is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem this fallacy], bright and clear.<br />"Clear cut and simple" — If it were clear cut, would we be having this argument for the umpteenth time?<br />"Readability" — How so?; "Can filter" — If they don't need patrolling, then why is this a point of yours? The filter is decidedly inept ''in general'' and changing the number of namespaces either way matters not. Besides, they will be "patrolled" either way you look at it. This wiki surely does not have the edit number to overcome the general number of contributors to the project to overwhelm them; filtering to just main space is quite sufficient to tell who did what where.<br />"Findability" — The masses are stupid. This is a generality that is rarely argued with and I don't think you would do well to argue with it yourself.<br />"Special pages" — Er... if you're looking to improve a specific category of articles, try doing it from [[Special:Categories]]. Or, for example, ShortPages, in the first 100 such articles I would estimate there is only approximately 30% of which are Smasher-related, though that number is at a glance (feel free to do your own numbers). It seems to me that this is a fine compromise either way, given the back-and-forth of the two different philosophies. You should be working to increase the length of these pages anyway, as they are considerably encyclopedic content; contact the main contributors to see if they can contribute more to their pages, or merge the mentions of crews to a list at worst should those people not respond.<br />As for "purging" — I think these are just offputting the work to a new namespace; the work will still be there, only even ''less'' visible for potential contributors as well as being ''less'' visible to us for cleanup.<br />Guess what, we ''should'' be the ones to say who gets to stay and who gets to go. We're the ones working the wiki; if the contributors which originally created the content aren't willing to stick around to fix the problems that the articles have, then it's none of their business it remains. Which is the only concern I can see being legitimate, for all that you didn't mention it. As for "proof," [[SW:AGF]]. If they say they did it, than they probably did it.<br />No comment on the slippery slope, though that also came up in the previous conversation we had about Smashers... hmm. Slipper slope ''is'' slippery! As for exceptions, there are ''always'' exceptions. You remember that I just said that the masses are stupid? Well, guess what?... --[[User:Sky2042|Sky]] ([[User talk:Sky2042|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Sky2042|c]] · [[w:c:wow:User:Sky2042|w]]) 07:42, 19 January 2009 (UTC) | |||