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[[en:Talk:AC/DC]] is a subpage of [[en:Talk:AC]]
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Author: benjamin.beaton

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This came up because of a concern that the slash in [[en:Good cop/bad cop]] would cause a problem. There seems to be no problem there, since there is no "Talk:Good cop" that would serve as a base page for [[en:Talk:Good cop/bad cop]]. However, there IS a [[en:Talk:AC]], which means that [[en:Talk:AC/DC]], which should be a base page, is treated by the software as a subpage of [[en:Talk:AC]]. This means that if someone moves the article [[en:AC]], and ticks the option "move all subpages of talk page, if applicable", then [[en:Talk:AC/DC]] and its subpages will end up separated from the [[en:AC/DC]] article. While I think [[en:AC]] and its talk page are unlikely to be moved, this could be a problem elsewhere.


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Severity: normal
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions#Indefinite_articles_within_titles

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:39 PM
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happy.melon.wiki wrote:

Subpages are enabled in ns1 (Talk:) on enwiki, and subpages are delimited with a slash "/". Ergo, the fact that [[Talk:AC/DC]] is a subpage of [[Talk:AC]] is expected behaviour. Of course *semantically* [[Talk:AC/DC]] is different to [[Talk:AC/Archive 1]], how is the software supposed to know that? Either subpages are enabled for a namespace, or they're not; trying to say that most but not all elegible pages are subpages, is a route to madness. I'm going to recommend WONTFIX on that basis.

WONTFIX because there isn't really a sensible fix. Suck it up.

  • Bug 22597 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

FYI: T24597 mentioned a behavior switch, NOTSUBPAGE