[WikiEN-l] quick question: different policies for different namespaces?

Wed Dec 13 21:41:59 UTC 2006

I don't believe there's any individual page which describes these
differences, but many policy  and guideline pages either describe their
relation to various namespaces, or make their relationships obvious, by
their very nature ([[Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines]] as an obvious
example).

Talk pages and articles are obviously subject to vastly different attitudes
and policies. The extent to which the same is true of project space is
probably a bit of an open question. Talk, use common sense, find common
ground (sounds so easy!).

Mebbe I should go and have a look at that, though. Sounds interesting.

-Luna

On 12/13/06, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> Can someone remind me where it's stated how our policies are
> applied differently for different namespaces, and how many of
> those differences there are?  I'm pretty sure the rules for talk
> pages are different, but are there also significant differences
> between "project" pages and the main namespace (i.e. ns:0)?
>
> (I ask because I'm becoming embroiled in a delightful -- not! --
> tempest-in-a-teapot over proposed sweeping new policies for the
> Reference Desks, and one of the sticking points seems to be the
> extent to which core policies such as WP:NOR and WP:V should be
> applied there.  But I mention this only for information; I'm not
> trying to extend the RD debate to this mailing list.)
>
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