On 10/30/11 9:52 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 30 October 2011 17:44, Brandon Harris<bhar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> (One of my favorite things about talk pages is that, for most people, >> *there is no talk page button*. There's a "Discussion" tab. So when >> someone says "Hey, just leave me a message on my talk page and I'll help >> you out!" that means. . . nothing.) > Perhaps we should apply the Common Name policy to the interface as > well as article titles. > > I noticed that. We constantly refer to talk pages as "talk pages", and yet somebody in his wisdom chose to use "Discussion" in the link. There is a certain level of synonymy between "talk" and "discuss", but someone who has been told to go to the "talk page" will respond to that instruction very literally, and look for a very specific link. Even more so if he is a newby or not a native English speaker.
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