Category talk:Wiki people

... I don't think I like the user:MarkDilley stuff, I think Ray and Johns looks cleaner MarkDilley

Yes, it looks cleaner that way, but this is not a wiki about us, the people writing the site. It's about the wikis themselves. I can go with whatever you like, but mediawiki has some features that it's nice to use and not have to work around, like the comment notification, which can only work in teh user namespace. Also, we have to decide if this conversation is okay have or need to be on the talk page. TedErnst 17:36, 18 Jan 2006 (EST)

Right, it is not about us, but we are in the community, so if I put my interests down on my user page, I think that article pages wouldn't reference my user page. I feel like that is a bummer. I like the current work around I have for my namespace (front lawn) to be MarkDilley and my comment space to be talk:MarkDilley. ;-)

Yes, your workaround is fine with me. And if that's the convention we're going to use, no problem. Could you say more about your reasoning here? Article pages wouldn't reference your user page? What does that mean? TedErnst 11:50, 19 Jan 2006 (EST)

That convention is not great as it doesn't separate a neutral view of Mark Dilley from his own self-maintained user page as Wikipedia does. You can only adopt it if you are willing to let every user control the description of themselves absolutely.

Could you say more about why you feel this way and what the ramifications are if we make the change your suggest, or if we don't? TedErnst | talk

I just realized something. User: namespace pages have extra links in the toolbox on the left side of the page "User contributions" and the always useful "E-mail this user". We lose those by using the main namespace. I suppose we could manually put up links like Special:Contributions/Sean Fennel and Special:Emailuser/Sean Fennel, but I don't know if I like having to do that. I suppose the pipe trick might help, but.... —User:Sean Fennel@ 21:15, 17 June 2006 (EDT)

I do like pictures

--Peu 15:35, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

Name conventions

If this is going to be a useful wiki and not another unreadable mess using WikiWords, you have to get rid of all habits of using names without spaces in them. Using names in the same form as Wikipedia (that is, the same form as the article about you) is the best way. If these people are actually users, then, they should become User:Mark_Dilley or whatever. Freedom has limits, and naming conventions need to be rigorous for everyone...

This is a very clearly-stated opinion. Thank you. I wonder if you (don't know who) could go one step further and explain why you hold this opinion? Obviously the people that have user pages without spaces don't find your opinion to be the obvious one. Maybe you'll help us understand your point of view by saying more? thanks! TedErnst | talk