On 01/24/12 3:26 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
Sure; if the objective is to have comments by "people who are interested in
the subject, can identify the relevant venue, can identify how to edit the
relevant venue, are aware that they *can* edit, can handle wikimarkup and
can deal with the fact that a lot of editors see "wide-ranging discussions
on a subject" as utterly irrelevant and subject to removal unless they
directly suggest alterations to the article content" instead of, well,
"people who are interested in the subject".
The first part of your comments refer to mechanical issues which
shouldn't invite a lot of controversy. Basic wikimarkup will be the same
on article and talk pages. For the other, having material "subject to
removal" give us the same problem that deletionists cause on article
pages. It requires judging what other people write. Even expecting
minimal relevance to the subject requires judging. I can go to an
article see even a documented point made in it as questionable, but not
have the resources to pursue the matter further. I can't validly change
the article, but I would be remiss in not addressing the issue. Much of
what is on the talk page will be unnecessarily long-winded, but that's a
reasonable price for openness.
Ray
On 24 January 2012 23:05, Ray Saintonge<sainto...@telus.net> wrote:
On 01/22/12 3:44 PM, David Gerard wrote:
On 22 January 2012 23:39, Svip<svi...@gmail.com> wrote:
The name 'talk page' is also a terrible name and very ambiguous as to
what it is. A far more appropriate candidate for such a page's name
would be 'collaboration page', 'work page', 'improvement page' and so
on.
English Wikinews calls it "collaboration". On English Wikipedia it
used to be called "talk", this was changed to "discussion", and it was
recently changed back to "talk".
I don't care what you call it. The talk page is still the best place for
wide ranging discussions on a subject.
Ray
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