Wikipedia:Main namespace

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The main namespace, or article namespace, is the namespace of Wikipedia that contains the encyclopedia proper (see Special:Allpages). It is the default namespace, and it does not use a prefix in the names of the pages that it contains. For an example, see Earth.

This main namespace contains Wikipedia articles. Not all of the pages in it are considered to be articles; the most notable exceptions are:

  • The Main Page.
  • For wiki-statistical purposes, some extremely short and simple pages are not counted as articles. The criteria have varied over time.
  • Thousands of disambiguation pages, which are used to resolve naming conflicts.
  • Many millions of redirect pages, which are used to re-route a page to some other page.
  • Many wikipedia lists are navigation tools rather than encyclopedia articles per se. But annotated lists, especially the ones voted to be Featured Lists (such as the List of ISS spacewalks), deserve to be treated as encyclopedia articles.

Talk pages for articles belong in the talk namespace; i.e., the pagenames start with the prefix Talk:. For example, Talk:Wikipedia is the talk page for the Wikipedia article.

Wikipedia content modification information:

  • This page was last modified on 29 July 2008, at 22:12.

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