Talk:Ken's Main Page (temporary)

Colons in article names

Hi Ken,

We cannot use colons (:)s in article names. These are reserved characters in the wiki software.

ST 23:45, 3 January 2009 (EST)

Creating alias's to existing pages

I noticed that you created a new page called Microphone Feedback that appears to be a (near) clone of the existing page Feedback / Microphone

Rather than have two nearly identical pages, you can create an alias that points to the original page.

You can create a page (any name you want for example Microphone Tips) and then make its sole contents

#REDIRECT [[Feedback / Microphone]]

Any reference to Microphone Tips will automatically load Feedback / Microphone

So if you want to have a page called Microphone Feedback then you could create that as a redirection page with contents

#REDIRECT [[Feedback / Microphone]]

Then we will just one page to maintain. We can make any required changes in the original page and avoid having redundant pages.

We need to avoid having two (or more) pages that have essentially the same information. It's fine if you make pages that refer to and present the building blocks (like atoms) to create different molecules. But we don't want to have multiple versions of the "atoms". It becomes really difficult to maintain.

ST 00:13, 4 January 2009 (EST)

Ken's reply

Hi ST,

I realize the problem with nearly-the-same articles. I'm only doing this temporarily while I get the hang of editing. I am nervous about making significant changes to pages you've built, so for now I have been building parallel pages.

This alternative main page is an example: I REALLY didn't want to mess with the real main page and yet needed a place where I could explore some of my ideas. This seemed like a good way to do that.

If you think it's okay for me to edit fairly freely (make significant changes) to existing articles (but still not the main page) then I'll stop making these. (A reply via Bose email or message board may be best for this question as I don't think I'm notified of replies here.)

Ken

ST

Got it. I understood what you were doing with this Ken's Main Page. I didn't understood that Microphone Feedback was also a practice page. I just hate to see you do the work twice.

You should be getting notifications about changes, but you may have the notifications going to an email address you are not monitoring. If there is a tab at the top that says "unwatch" then you should be able to hit the "my watchlist" link at the top right to see what's changed in the pages where you are active.

ST 17:12, 4 January 2009 (EST)