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	Revision 41 . . November 9, 2001 5:09 am by Larry Sanger
	Revision 40 . . November 7, 2001 7:03 am by Larry Sanger
	Revision 39 . . October 19, 2001 7:25 am by Larry Sanger
	Revision 38 . . October 19, 2001 3:27 am by Magnus Manske [Subpage auto-list at PHP script]
	Revision 37 . . October 19, 2001 2:47 am by Larry Sanger [Done for now, I think]
	Revision 36 . . (edit) October 19, 2001 2:33 am by The Cunctator
	Revision 35 . . (edit) October 19, 2001 2:31 am by The Cunctator
	Revision 34 . . October 19, 2001 2:31 am by The Cunctator *[Adding list of subpaged entries]**
	Revision 33 . . October 19, 2001 2:28 am by The Cunctator *[ Removing "more to come, dammit :)"]**
	Revision 32 . . October 19, 2001 2:27 am by Larry Sanger [Back at work...almost done for now.]
	Revision 31 . . (edit) October 19, 2001 1:51 am by Larry Sanger
	Revision 30 . . October 19, 2001 1:51 am by Larry Sanger
	Revision 29 . . (edit) October 18, 2001 10:46 pm by Koyaanis Qatsi
	Revision 28 . . October 18, 2001 10:28 pm by AxelBoldt [/Talk in php wikipedia; some other things.]
	Revision 27 . . October 18, 2001 10:27 pm by AxelBoldt [/Talk in php wikipedia; some other things.]
	Revision 26 . . October 18, 2001 10:26 pm by AxelBoldt [/Talk in php wikipedia; some other things.]
	Revision 25 . . (edit) October 18, 2001 2:44 pm by The Cunctator *[Removing redundancy]**
	Revision 24 . . October 18, 2001 1:29 pm by Larry Sanger
	Revision 23 . . October 18, 2001 1:28 pm by Larry Sanger
	Revision 22 . . October 18, 2001 1:09 pm by Larry Sanger
	Revision 21 . . October 18, 2001 12:28 pm by The Cunctator *[Don't remove pros, add cons.]**
	Revision 20 . . (edit) October 18, 2001 12:24 pm by The Cunctator
	Revision 19 . . (edit) October 18, 2001 11:14 am by Larry Sanger [Started editing this--still needs work--not done with "contra subpages."]
	Revision 18 . . (edit) October 18, 2001 11:13 am by Larry Sanger [Started editing this--still needs work--not done with "contra subpages."]
	Revision 17 . . (edit) October 18, 2001 11:13 am by Larry Sanger [Started editing this--still needs work--not done with "contra subpages."]
	Revision 16 . . October 18, 2001 11:12 am by Larry Sanger [Started editing this--still needs work--not done with "contra subpages."]
	Revision 15 . . October 18, 2001 5:11 am by Paul Drye [How about /Talk subpages? Shame if they went away....]
	Revision 14 . . October 18, 2001 5:10 am by Paul Drye [And how about /Talk subpages? Shame if they went away....]
	Revision 13 . . October 18, 2001 5:07 am by (logged).17.47.xxx
	Revision 12 . . October 16, 2001 10:42 am by ManningBartlett [nicely done axel!!!! hear here]
	Revision 11 . . October 16, 2001 6:14 am by AxelBoldt
	Revision 10 . . (edit) October 16, 2001 5:55 am by Josh Grosse
	Revision 9 . . (edit) October 15, 2001 9:20 am by Koyaanis Qatsi [beginning quot]
	Revision 8 . . (edit) October 15, 2001 9:19 am by Koyaanis Qatsi [no, this ''one'' link on the page looks silly. sorry, paul. :-)]
	Revision 7 . . October 15, 2001 9:18 am by Koyaanis Qatsi
	Revision 6 . . (edit) October 15, 2001 9:16 am by Koyaanis Qatsi
	Revision 5 . . October 15, 2001 9:13 am by Koyaanis Qatsi
	Revision 4 . . October 13, 2001 12:51 am by AxelBoldt
	Revision 3 . . October 13, 2001 12:50 am by AxelBoldt
	Revision 2 . . October 13, 2001 12:40 am by Anatoly Vorobey
	Revision 1 . . October 13, 2001 12:24 am by Magnus Manske [The arguments as I see them]

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* Single-level hierarchy is unjustified: subpages allows us to impose some conceptual structure or hierarchy on topics--but only one level of hierarchy. This is conceptually unappealing. Shouldn't it be either all or none?

* Single-level hierarchy is unjustified: subpages allow us to impose some conceptual structure or hierarchy on topics--but only one level of hierarchy. This is conceptually unappealing. Shouldn't it be either all or none? Look at it this way: suppose we create [[Foo/Bar]] and we're writing on the [[/Bar]] subpage. Then we discover a subsubtopic we want to create. What do we do then--just create a brand new top level page, apparently, for the subsubtopic. But then why do we have [[/Bar]] on a subpage in the first place? Doesn't make sense. This sort of thing could very easily happen in any area of human knowledge that is highly structured and "hierarchical," such as math, philosophy, and even history (there are many historical details of historical details).