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==Compromise== | ==Compromise== | ||
Suggestion: Flag the Talk: pages corresponding to wanted pages with the template, and leave the main namespace alone. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 19:32, 15 December 2006 (CST) | Suggestion: Flag the Talk: pages corresponding to wanted pages with the template, and leave the main namespace alone. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 19:32, 15 December 2006 (CST) | ||
: Well, that would seem to be one solution, at any rate. Still we may want to work out a formal policy on how to clean out the erroneous entries in [[Special:Wantedpages]] and how to promote the task listing better, as well. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 21:23, 17 December 2006 (CST) | |||
==My Input== | ==My Input== | ||
Personally, I've never taken a look at the tasks page, and the task page doesn't seem to be too advertised. I think the red links are useful because you can see that someone ''wants'' to link there, but there's nothing to link to. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 23:44, 16 December 2006 (CST) | Personally, I've never taken a look at the tasks page, and the task page doesn't seem to be too advertised. I think the red links are useful because you can see that someone ''wants'' to link there, but there's nothing to link to. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 23:44, 16 December 2006 (CST) | ||
:The reason that leaving red links is that if someone, like me, spells something incorrectly in red links, and someone creates an article, there is one more unneeded linking system. I rather have a stable simple page of yellow, than red. If someone was going to add info, they click on the yellow link anyway. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 00:05, 17 December 2006 (CST) | :The reason that leaving red links is that if someone, like me, spells something incorrectly in red links, and someone creates an article, there is one more unneeded linking system. I rather have a stable simple page of yellow, than red. If someone was going to add info, they click on the yellow link anyway. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 00:05, 17 December 2006 (CST) | ||
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Compromise
Suggestion: Flag the Talk: pages corresponding to wanted pages with the template, and leave the main namespace alone. --Peter Farago 19:32, 15 December 2006 (CST)
- Well, that would seem to be one solution, at any rate. Still we may want to work out a formal policy on how to clean out the erroneous entries in Special:Wantedpages and how to promote the task listing better, as well. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate 21:23, 17 December 2006 (CST)
My Input
Personally, I've never taken a look at the tasks page, and the task page doesn't seem to be too advertised. I think the red links are useful because you can see that someone wants to link there, but there's nothing to link to. --BklynBruzer 23:44, 16 December 2006 (CST)
- The reason that leaving red links is that if someone, like me, spells something incorrectly in red links, and someone creates an article, there is one more unneeded linking system. I rather have a stable simple page of yellow, than red. If someone was going to add info, they click on the yellow link anyway. Shane (T - C - E) 00:05, 17 December 2006 (CST)