Which namespace?: Applied Phlebotinum Blog

I was somewhat surprised to find a page for Web Original / Applied Phlebotinum Blog even though Main / Applied Phlebotinum Blog does not exist.

How does this work - is a page for a work placed in the Main namespace unless there's a conflict (e.g. for a book and film with the same name)? Is a page supposed to go in the namespace for the appropriate media (and if so, does this need a redirect)? Something else?

The Applied Phlebotinum Blog is just an example; there are other cases as well. I would like to know if there's a general rule or best practice for this.

edited 21st Jul '11 4:41:28 PM by Spark9

A page for a work should be in the appropriate work namespace. For quite a long time, this was not followed or enforced resulting in works scattered all through the Main namespace. Which kind of made the whole Namespace thing not work very well.

We are now trying to get things changed so the the namespaces are used. So if a new work page is made it should be in the correct namespace. Old works pages are slowly being moved. Do not make a new Main page for a work that is already in the correct namespace.

A works page that's moved from the Main to the correct namespace may have the Main left as a redirect, if there are inbound links that would be broken by cutting it.

edited 21st Jul '11 4:46:49 PM by Madrugada

If nothing else uses the main page though, you can turn it into a redirect toward the work.

We'd rather you don't make Main into a redirect to a new page. That still defeats the purpose of using the namespaces.

It looks really weird to have a red main and a blue subpage.

Yes, but we want people to get used to linking to the namespaced pages. Making Main redirects doesn't do that.

Okay then.