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You can only adopt a /first_last talk:first_last convention if you are willing to let every user control the description of themselves absolutely.
(get rid of all habits of using names without spaces in them) |
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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? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] 11:50, 19 Jan 2006 (EST) | 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? [[User:TedErnst|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. | |||
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 [[Wikipedia:Help:Pipe trick|pipe trick]] might help, but.... —[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 21:15, 17 June 2006 (EDT) | 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 [[Wikipedia:Help:Pipe trick|pipe trick]] might help, but.... —[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 21:15, 17 June 2006 (EDT) | ||