This page is called "do not use subpages" - but since its first revision, the guideline actually is: "do not try to arrange articles in a tree-like structure". :)
Subpages per se have never been the problem - using an article title like Federation/Starship/USS Enterprise in a sensible way has. I'm going to rephrase that and move this page to just subpages afterwards. -- Cid Highwind 10:08, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Subpages in the main namespace are a bad idea
So, lately there have been some really questionable decisions to attach data to pages in the main namespace with subpages. The Ron Moore and Brannon Braga AOL chats, and then this strange one It's A Wrap! sale and auction/Missing references. The policy says not to use subpages in the main namespace to arrange things in a treee structure, but I think that subpages should never be used in the main namespace, and if we are going to hack a workaround, the workaround should be to make things work the way they ought to, without subpages. So instead of naming things like "em-3-green" with a subpage redirect as a workaround, they should be named their proper title with parent page redirects as a workaround, and the subpage breadcrumb list should be hidden with CSS in the main namespace since wikia won't just turn it off.
Articles that should have a / in the name, but can't because of sub-pages:
- AMT/Ertl
- Chapman / Leonard Studio Equipment
- Chevrolet C/K
- Deep Space 9 station regulation 82/7B
- Em/3/Green
- Em/3/Green's species
- Kei/Yuri factor
- M/ARA
- Mm/Hg
- Montgomery/Cobb
- NCC-1701/5A
- NCC-1701/R6
Aside from those really awful AOL chats, some other stuff that shouldn't be in the main namespace:
- Elements by atomic number/temp
- Elements by symbol/temp
- Thomas Riker/peerreview
- Warp factor/temp
--bp 15:54, March 31, 2010 (UTC)