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===Ambiguity about "Discussion" pages===
Each page automatically gets a "discussion" tab that goes to "Talk:<topic>". But if you use the standard template, you also get a link in the InfoBox to "<topic>_(discussion)". Can we remove that ambiguity? The pages have two distinct purposes -- discussion about the appropriate editing of the <topic> page, and opinions about the <topic> itself -- so I think we should retain both. But they should be called different things, not both "discussion". Could we set up a separate namespace for the second purpose rather than use the "_(discussion) suffix? Is it possible to add a new tab to *all* pages, so that each page had a link in the header to "Talk:<topic>" as well as a link to "Discussion:<topic>"? [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 14:41, 22 August 2009 (PDT)
: That's a really good idea. Maybe to make it especially clear we cold have a "Talk:<topic>" for the discussion about appropriate editing, and "Opinions about:<topic>" for the short personal opinion page so that it is especially clear? But whatever we decided to call it, do you know how we could go about it? I don't know how to set up a name-space. I think either Robert Murphy or Prab would know how to do it. Cheers, --[[User:Graham grove|Graham]] 06:26, 20 April 2010 (UTC) (P.S. Sorry I've taken so long to see this and respond - I've been so busy in the last year or so that I haven't spent much time at all working on the website.)
===Separate namespace for opinionated pages===