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That doesn't look terrible to me, but I get that the column for content has been narrowed by Vector 2022. I have a small screen and have been affected as well. One of the problems is that the white space between the table of contents and the page content is too large, and has been since the skin was
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clearly shows. Each subject namespace has its own distinct talk namespace, e.g., the Template talk: namespace (11) is "technically" distinct from the Knowledge talk: namespace (5). To assert otherwise will confuse readers. What I sometimes find confusing is the rationale behind the "R to..." series
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Since these are all actually in the same namespace, "talkspace", I felt it was misleading and confusing to call them "talk namespaces". Technically, "Knowledge talk:" is no different from "Help talk:" is no different from "Template talk:" – they are all in "talkspace". I thought this would be
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have explained it very well, and I do understand it from a more general, less (Rcat) specific point-of-view. It is better to see all the talk pages as just as different as all the content pages for most purposes. It would probably be unnecessary to have different redirect categories for each
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from the sidebar after a community discussion about effectiveness. The namespace and its transclusions are still retained in the hope that the WMF will come up with a solution. You can still create and edit a book design, but the online book rendering service has been withdrawn. See
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is a more general term that can more broadly be used for all of the talk namespaces. The template name says nothing about where the redirect is coming from, just that it is going to a talk page. If "R from talk to talk" is outside of the desired scope, then perhaps a rename to
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Re PE. In your first paragraph you talk about "one" talkspace, where all x_talkpages would be. That is not true. There are 13 independent, differently named and identified talkspaces. Your confused reader is probably confused by ... someone saying that there is only
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talkspace}. If you can handle the redirects with that simplification: OK & fine. But do not let the language come back to bite you. What you describe is: I have this single template with that name, and it works for its purpose,
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should be reverted. The Education Program namespace is still installed on English Knowledge, it is just deprecated and inactive. It mirrors the Gadget and Gadget Definition namespaces in being unused. If you go to
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different type of talk page, but who knows? There may come a time when that will become necessary. At any rate, thank you for catching my mistake, and thank you both for your lucid explanations!
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As a table column header the plural is correct (and very clear for any reader, I dare say, who arrives here). It also is in good balance & complementary with the opponent, "subject namespace
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Pages in Knowledge space follow most of the article style guidelines. It's debatable where to draw the line. With the new default skin, content screen area is highly constrained. The present
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talkspace when they target pages that are inside talkspace. Can you see how leaving it "Talk namespaces" in this template is misleading and confusing? especially for newer editors? –
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First, to be clear about the words. "subject" and "talk" are those complementary opposites, always. They make the pair, both per page and per namespace.
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rolled out. I have contributed feedback to a number of bugs related to this problem, and some changes have been made. One of the outstanding bugs is
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talkspace. Β :::Very often "talkspace" can be singular without any confusion at all. That is good then. This is mostly when thinking/talking
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A discussion says they are for mw:Extension:LiquidThreads , which to the best of my knowledge does not make them currently namespaces. --
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page is in. On the other hand, for all other purposes I do see where it may be confusing to singularize "Talk namespaces". Perhaps the
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Namespace will be uninstalled when they uninstall Education Program extension, and it will become like Flow (no longer installed).
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I feel the Education Namespace should be reinserted as it should be a list of all installed namespaces, not just used namespaces.
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which states there are 10 basic namespaces but the template table contained 12, which was very confusing.
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It'd be useful for use at the bottom of articles, as vertical sidebars are discouraged in the lead (
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would help. In any event, the purpose should be clearly explained by the template documentation. –
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at first glance implies a redirect to namespace 1, the Talk: namespace. But actually it says talk
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as you describe. But we must remember it is a simplification. It actually means to say: {R to
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is taking up a lot of vertical space. For example, it's conflicting with the shortcut box in
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you might want to think again: what if you'd approach them as separates? - just a hint).
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by reverse all talkpages are in that one. That reversal grouping is the illogical step.
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Some pages are still there, but not on search (doesn't work with namespace). e.g. see
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I removed Thread and Summary namespaces which currently, I think, are not namespaces.
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I do a lot of redirect categorization, and one that I use from time-to-time is
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category's name should be changed. For example, the category name for the
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Sorry, but I agree with DePiep. There is not one single talk namespace, as
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That makes a lot of sense to me Wbm1058. I suppose it can be said that
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Don't think I can explain it any better. Glad Wbm gave it a try too. -
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Education Program:Boston College/Developmental Biology (Spring 2013)
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Education Program namespace is still installed on English Knowledge
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only about redirecting to a talkspace (any). (but if it confuses
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In December 2019 we suppressed the rendering capability of
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Category:Redirects to talk page from non-talk-page namespaces
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uncontroversial; however, I am glad to discuss it with you.
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Category:Redirects to template from non-template namespace
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Knowledge:Namespace
phauly
talk
18:26, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Knowledge:Rfd#Knowledge:File_namespace
Emmette Hernandez Coleman
talk
10:36, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
DePiep
R to talk
Redirects to talk pages
R to talk
Paine Ellsworth
12:12, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Template:Namespaces
R to talk page
talk page
R from subject page to talk page
Wbm1058
talk
14:02, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Category:Redirects to template from non-template namespace
Redirects to talk pages
Category:Redirects to talk page from non-talk-page namespaces
Paine Ellsworth
15:17, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
edit conflict
R to talk
DePiep
talk

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