Talk:Barack Obama/Organisation

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Hello folks, Im one of the regular mediators. I anticipate much more discussion on this article, and as such I want to try an experiment for a high-traffic controversial topic talk page, (this seems to qualify). The idea is to organize the talk page according to a topic-based system, archiving the discussion in a topical way, rather than just in a linear way.

The first thing to do would be to work out a system for doing this. The basic system would be a topical list at the top, which link to subpages titled after the major issues relevant to this article. There are of course some potential problems with people editing other peoples comments - the important rule must be to be principled and consistent - making linkages to specific archive sections.

Im curious how this sounds to people. Please offer your feedback at Talk:Barack Obama/Organisation. -Ste|vertigo 09:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

This sounds like an interesting and fruitful idea - if the legitimate purpose of a talk page is to discuss the article itself, a talk page could be organized to mirror the organization of the underlying article at a given point in real time. This setup could enable relatively rapid and efficient links between different sections of a lengthy article and the relevant sections of an even more lengthy talk page.

Of course the underlying article's organization might change drastically after the article's talk page was reorganized. No solution is perfect. Bigturtle 22:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)