I've added some lines indicating where rules pages should go (policy, or proposed/guideline/rejected). Feel free to reword if it isn't clear. Radiant_* 09:55, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

This page appears to be out of date, as there are two red links on it - one to /Alphabetical index and another to Category:Wikipedia policy thinktank. These ought to be fixed or removed. Hairy Dude 00:13, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Calling the project namespace for the wikipedia project the wikipedia namespace is ambiguous because the main or article namespace of the project is also called the Wikipedia. Surely for clarity the project namespace of the wikipedia project should always be refered to by the full name of wikipedia project namespace? Cyclotron Or an alternate contraction can be found.

I agree. I was confused about this when I first started on Wikipedia. I think it would be much clearer to call the project namespace "Project" or "Wikipedia Project" or "Editspace" or something. Libcub (talk) 06:45, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I note that if you put Wikipedia:Anything and look at making a new article for it, it calls it a "new project" and it's special. Similarly if you goto mediawiki:anything and try to make a new ariticle, it prevents you from doing so with the message "This page provides interface text for the software, and is locked to prevent abuse.". I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I'm wondering how I can associate that on my own wiki by having Wikiname:blah read specially. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks. TheHYPO 22:55, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Since this page makes some actionable recomendations beyond just being a help page, it should be a guideline or policy. I've tagged it with {{proposed}}. This should also bring some extra light onto this page, since there are a few issues with it. (Linking to the pretty much dead 'Policy Thinktank', not mentioning essays and so on...) --Barberio 13:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not creating redundant pages is so obvious that we really do not need a guideline to tell us not to, which leaves us with the single actionable reccommendation of not using main projectspace for discussion. While it's debatable whether or not you should, I don't think we should have a guideline saying that, because there might be some case in which we do want it. -Amark moo! 15:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a grudge against this page, Barberio? This isn't policy, it's just information about a namespace and what belongs in it. Both tags should be removed. Ahudson 22:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am currently working n a humoruous essay, and I would like to know how to create a page in the project namespace. please help. J-stan ^Talk 20:36, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]