DA:Mainspace - Revision history

AzazelMango: Blanked the page

2026-01-25T06:54:53Z

Blanked the page

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	~~==<span id="Namespace"></span>Namespace==~~
	~~{{Shortcut\|WP:NS0\|WP:MAINSPACE\|WP:ARTICLESPACE}}~~
	~~{{Main\|Wikipedia:Administration#Data structure and development}}~~
	~~"Articles" belong to the '''main namespace''' of Wikipedia pages (also called "'''article namespace'''" or simply "'''mainspace'''").~~

	The main namespace, article namespace, or mainspace is the [[Wikipedia:Namespace\|namespace]] of Wikipedia that contains the encyclopedia proper{{snd}}that is, where "live" Wikipedia articles reside, as opposed to [[Wikipedia:About the Sandbox\|sandbox]] pages.

	The main namespace is the default namespace and does not use a prefix in article page names. This is distinct from other namespaces, where page names are always prefixed by an indicator of the particular namespace in which the page resides. For example, all [[Wikipedia:User page\|user pages]] are prefixed by <code>"'''User:'''"</code>, their [[Wikipedia:Talk page\|talk pages]] by <code>'''"User talk:"'''</code>, [[Wikipedia:Template namespace\|templates]] by <code>'''"Template:"'''</code>, and various types of internal administrative pages by <code>'''"Wikipedia:"'''</code> (such as this page). Thus, any page created ''without'' such a prefix will automatically be placed in the article namespace.

	~~The main namespace does not include any pages in any of the specified [[wikipedia:namespace\|namespace]]s that are used for particular purposes, such as:~~
	* the ''talk'' namespaces for discussing what the content of articles in mainspace should be (for example, [[Talk:Mathematics]])
	* the ''Wikipedia'' namespace, for material about meta subjects related to Wikipedia and is where [[WP:PAG\|policies and guidelines]], [[WP:ESSAYS\|essays]], [[WP:INFOPAGES\|information]], and process pages reside, as well as other "meta" topics about editing Wikipedia (examples, [[WP:VERIFY]] and [[Wikipedia:Statistics]]);
	* the ''Wikipedia talk'' namespace, for discussing what the content of pages in Wikipedia space should be, and interpretations of them (for example, [[Wikipedia talk:VERIFY]] and [[Wikipedia talk:Statistics]]);
	* the ''special'' namespace, whose pages are created by the software on demand (see [[Help:Special page]]);
	* the ''user'' namespace for pages that are used by individual Wikipedia editors (example, [[User:Example]]).
	* the ''file'' namespace which is used for describing and attributing images (example, [[:File:Great Horned Owl.USFWS.jpg]])
	* the ''MediaWiki'' namespace, which is used to define shortcuts and other text strings used around Wikipedia (example [[MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyrightwarning]])

	~~But not all pages in the article namespace are considered to be articles by everyone. Pages in mainspace that are not universally considered articles-proper are:~~
	* hundreds of thousands of [[Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists\|stand-alone lists]] (although these are usually treated as articles, and can even be [[Wikipedia:Content assessment\|assessed]] as [[Wikipedia:Featured lists\|featured lists]]) including [[Wikipedia:Outlines\|outlines]], [[:Category:Wikipedia glossaries\|glossaries]] and [[:Category:Wikipedia indexes\|indices]];
	* hundreds of thousands of [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation\|disambiguation pages]] and [[Wikipedia:Set index articles\|set index articles]], which are used to resolve naming conflicts;
	* many millions of [[Wikipedia:redirect\|redirect]] pages, including [[Wikipedia:Soft redirect\|soft redirects]], which are used to re-route one page to another page;
	* a small number of mathematical tables and data pages (e.g. [[Table of divisors]], [[Table of nuclides (segmented, narrow)]], [[Ethanol (data page)]]);
	* and the [[Main Page]], which is a [[WP:Portal\|portal]]{{snd}}but it's still in mainspace from a time before any other namespaces existed, and [[Wikipedia:Perennial_proposals#Move_the_Main_Page_out_of_the_main_namespace\|it would be more trouble than it's worth to move it now]].

	Every page in the main namespace can have a companion [[Wikipedia:Talk page\|talk page]], and these belong to the "Talk" namespace, i.e., the page names start with the prefix "Talk:", followed by the name of the page in the main namespace. For example, "[[Talk:Wikipedia]]" is the talk page for Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia\|article on itself]].

AzazelMango: Removed redirect to Main page

2026-01-20T12:19:33Z

Removed redirect to Main page

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-#REDIRECT [[Main_page]]
+==<span id="Namespace"></span>Namespace==
-{{Redirect category shell|
+The main namespace, article namespace, or mainspace is the [[Wikipedia:Namespace|namespace]] of Wikipedia that contains the encyclopedia proper{{snd}}that is, where  "live" Wikipedia articles reside, as opposed to [[Wikipedia:About the Sandbox|sandbox]] pages.
-{{R to project namespace}}
-{{R to section}}
+The main namespace is the default namespace and does not use a prefix in article page names. This is distinct from other namespaces, where page names are always prefixed by an indicator of the particular namespace in which the page resides. For example, all [[Wikipedia:User page|user pages]] are prefixed by <code>"'''User:'''"</code>, their [[Wikipedia:Talk page|talk pages]] by <code>'''"User talk:"'''</code>, [[Wikipedia:Template namespace|templates]] by <code>'''"Template:"'''</code>, and various types of internal administrative pages by <code>'''"Wikipedia:"'''</code> (such as this page). Thus, any page created ''without'' such a prefix will automatically be placed in the article namespace.
-{{R from shortcut}}
-}}
+The main namespace does not include any pages in any of the specified [[wikipedia:namespace|namespace]]s that are used for particular purposes, such as:

AzazelMango: Changed redirect target from DA:Main page to Main page

2026-01-20T12:17:50Z

Changed redirect target from DA:Main page to Main page

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AzazelMango: Changed redirect target from DA:Main page#Namespace to DA:Main page

2026-01-20T12:17:26Z

Changed redirect target from DA:Main page#Namespace to DA:Main page

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AzazelMango: Changed redirect target from wikipedia:What is an article?#Namespace to DA:Main page#Namespace

2026-01-20T12:16:57Z

Changed redirect target from wikipedia:What is an article?#Namespace to DA:Main page#Namespace

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	#REDIRECT [[~~Wikipedia~~:~~What is an article?~~#Namespace]]		#REDIRECT [[DA:Main_page#Namespace]]

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AzazelMango: Redirected page to wikipedia:What is an article?#Namespace

2026-01-20T12:15:23Z

Redirected page to wikipedia:What is an article?#Namespace

New page

#REDIRECT [[Wikipedia:What is an article?#Namespace]]

{{Redirect category shell|
{{R to project namespace}}
{{R to section}}
{{R from shortcut}}
}}