On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:30:32 +0100, Martin Harper
<martin(a)myreddice.freeserve.co.uk> gave utterance to the following:
I'm assuming there's a really good reason this
specific article is being
discussed on
the list rather than at the relevant talk page?
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Commodore_(rank)
1) because Wikipedia has been totally unavailable all morning (it's back
now)
2) because wiki pages are actually hopeless for conducting a threaded
discussion which is easy to follow, and in this forum there is no chance
of someone changing what you write.
3) because as soon as there are more than 2 people actively engaged in
discussion on a talk page, the chances of hitting an edit conflic seem to
rise rapidly towards 100%.
> Take it to the wiki pages. That way, you get to avoid rehashing tired
> old arguments
> that have already been discussed a million times before, and boring the
> stuffing out
> of me. Plus, there's a slim chance that way that comments will be based
> on the
> wisdom of the ages, rather than the whims of the moment.
The need to avoid edit conflicts tends to make
people write more hastily
on talk pages, IMO. And this forum is archived.
What I'm saying is, let's look at an impoved system for talk pages. Maybe
we could retain a wiki-style talk page for low-level comment, but have the
option to switch to some sort of threaded forum once discussion becomes
active?
--
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried