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→Addressing the issue of brackets for "(overview)" or "(user-name)" etc.: My own template ideas
Thanks J.J. for your comments. All your criticisms are welcome. Your points are good ones. I suppose my feeling is that portals and categories don't actually work that well. At least, I never really browse for my information by clicking through category or portal listings. Also, they are confusing to new users - at least they were to me when I first discovered wikis. I agree it is odd putting "(overview)" or "(G.G.)" after a title. The reason I've been doing that though is to make the article clear. If it has "(G.G.)" after it, then I mean that it is my original work and is an opinion. If it has "(overview)" after it then it means it is an encyclopedia, neutral point of view article. Also then that leaves room for "(quotes)" for any topic etc. For example, if you look at [[Church]] you'll see the main page is "Church" which has a brief summary and then the sub-links which incluide [[Church (overview)]] which hopefully would become the large encyclopedia style article but then there are also links for sub-topics and links for opinion articles such as [[What is the Church? (G.G.)]] and [[The Church (justforcatholics.org)]] as well as links for quotes about the church at [[Church (quotes)]] and a link for brief forum-style discussion about the church [[Church (discussion)]]. So although it is a little odd, I still think ultimately it allows for growth and personal articles. Let me know what you think. --[[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] 21:42, 26 July 2006 (PDT)
:One of the problems with the parenthesis in the title is that there are other non-topic pages that don't have parenthesis; I think it would get confusing as to what's a topic and what's an article/opinion.
:How about a Topic: namespace instead of Portal? Also, instead of [[Template:Overview]] showing ''An overview of ''[[Church (overview)|Church]], it would probably be less confusing if it showed the actual link, like ''See [[Church (overview)]] for a more detailed article.'' [[Template:Opinions]] and [[Template:Quotes]] would be changed similarly.
:I think this may work out well if we have a good how-to guide on making topic pages, maybe even using a [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Substitution subst] template to start from. I may make my own prototype at [[Talk:Christianity/Dev]] (with closer adherence to [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents#For_editors Wikimedia formatting standards]) if you think that would be helpful. --[[User:RockOfVictory|J. J.]] 19:11, 27 July 2006 (PDT)
