User:Roger/Brain

This page is me thinking...

Clarification: Special:Categories provide a list of pages with a given Category tag on them. Pages can have multiple Category tags; this is flexible. Special:MultiCategorySearch (recently installed on Telfpedia by me) lists pages that intersect with Categories you specify, and allows for excluding categories you specify, too. Very useful. Name spaces on the other hand are inflexible appendages to the front of a page's name which is quite confusing when not done aptly. Perhaps "Lesson:" is apt; perhaps it is not. May depend. It was the best we could think of when we created that namespace. If it turns out to be more unhelpful than helpful, in time that will be clear. My primary bugaboo with it currently is that it does not appear to be helpful enough to be put to consistent use on Teflpedia. This is what leads me to believe it may be dispensed with. However, if someone to comb through Special:AllPages and apply this "Lesson:" namespace consistently to the pages we already have here at Teflpedia, my concern might go away. You see, I don't want to hassle with "Lesson:" namespace, myself, because I don't see the benefit it. It seems to me if we are not going to apply it to page names consistently, we had better not apply it to page names and for consistency had better remove it from the page names we have haphazardly applied it to. Example: we have Lesson:Sentence creation ELT games but also Vocabulary ELT games, Competitive ELT games, Story telling ELT games and many pages linked to at Conversation questions. Anyone game to move fix this? It would require simply many page Moves. I'd rather just move all 33 pages currently in "Lesson:" namespace into Main namespace and then remove "Lesson:" namespace.

Special:Search results page lets you limit search to specific namespaces.