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![]() | Text and/or other creative content from this version of Wikipedia:Topical index was copied or moved into Wikipedia:Utilities with this edit on 00:30, 16 April 2004. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. |
I couldn't think of any reason why this page shouldn't stay as it was, and exist alongside Wikipedia:Topical index. I think it is useful in its own right. Some users may not want a list of all articles in the Wikipedia namespace. -- Tim Starling 00:34, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)
Is "Guidelines", rather than (key) policy, isn't it? Alai 04:13, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
With so many pages linking here, I don't see dumping them onto a historical page which is only of interest to historians and researchers as a good idea. Note that discussion of the history of Wikipedia utilities begins at Wikipedia talk:Topical index. There you see that the index to the Wikipedia project namespace originated at Wikipedia utilities, before there even was a project namespace. Wikipedia utilities, which soon became Wikipedia:Utilities, was billed as a repository for pages that are useful to "doing things" in Wikipedia, for the benefit of regular editors and contributors. Isn't that what the project namespace is for? Now, one might argue that the main index, or "portal" into the project namespace is Wikipedia:Community portal. However, I'm redirecting to Wikipedia:Project namespace, where a brief mention of its origins as Wikipedia utilities can be made. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 22:09, 9 September 2013 (UTC)