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Howdy. I'm curious about the namespace rules. Here Help:Contents you say to do ComicName:Characters:CharacterName.

But if you take a look here: Special:Allpages the namespace dropdown box lists a Comic: and an Author: namespace.

Are we going to ignore the Comic: namespace?

I definately understand the desire to organize the characters under the comic name so that there will be no collisions. But I'm a little scared of generating possibly thousands of new namespaces.

You almost certainly know much better than I do, so I'll happily go back into my box if need be, but this page from Wikipedia warns against non-standard namespaces in case of a MediaWiki update that will remove all information from those namespaces: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia:Namespace

KMorris 18:27, 7 Aug 2005 (PDT)

I've asked around Wikipedia, and this was the response I got:

"...those conversations on Talk:Wikipedia:Namespace are very very old. They should be using Mediawiki's subpages feature if they want such a structure (link to "Foo/Bar" from "Foo" by just typing "/Bar", "Foo/Bar" contains a backlink to "Foo"). Subpages are disabled in Wikipedia's main namespace, so I'm betting they don't even know that they're there."

This way we could avoid creating tons of namespaces, and also avoid collisions.

I'm still curious to know when we should use the Author and Comic namespaces.

KMorris 19:16, 7 Aug 2005 (PDT)