Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130515224647/@comment-188432-20130518201919

Robotnick2 wrote: Is it possible to at the same time split the dates into a separate namespace? That would, to my mind, at least keep things neat. It would be inadvisable for at least two reasons. First, it would simply add unnecessary keystrokes to a name. Instead of 1 May, we'd have Date:1 May or somesuch. Second, it would imply, given the way we otherwise use namespaces on this wiki, that the date pages were subject to different rules than normal pages. And that's really against what we've been trying to do with the date pages for several years now. Our point with these pages — which unfortunately were ignored and allowed to run wild for the first few years of the wiki's existence — is that date pages are normal articles, which must have leads, full sentences and all the other things that other articles must have.