Wikipedia talk:Temps

I don't believe that this problem merits the creation of a new namespace for it; I believe it's easier and more logical to keep temp pages attached to the articles they are aiding; article count just isn't that important for anything except press releases, and they're not checking to see how many are temp: it's such a small fraction that it doesn't matter. :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:06, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Maybe it could also be used for VfD subpages? Toothpaste 09:19, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Why not just move /temp articles to the talk namespace? This would prevent them having any effect on the article count. Angela. 10:50, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

I didn't get it a few days ago, but now that I do, that sounds like an excellent idea, Angella. Toothpaste 05:09, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

'Bot assistance
Can we get a bot to search & move for us? Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 12:00, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Move: yes. Search: unlikely. With my 'bot writer hat on I'd say that it's difficult for a 'bot to actually find the pages. An SQL query to find the pages, and to output a simple whitespace-separated list of oldname/newname pairs, would be better than a 'bot. A simple page move 'bot could be driven from such a list. Uncle G 19:12:23, 2005-08-10 (UTC)

Is there a problem here in the first place?
Mindspillage says that the fraction of main namespace pages that are /Temp sub-pages is so small that the effect on the page count (which isn't that important anyway) is negligible. Before we spend too much time on this, please supply hard figures to show that there's actually a problem worth addressing in the first place. Uncle G 19:12:23, 2005-08-10 (UTC)