Thread:Project:Support desk/Make all pages/main-namespace behave like categories/category-namespace/reply (2)

I have a wiki, that is just building up and we don't really know, what will be a category and what not. During that discussion someone asked, why we have to make a difference at all - and i couldn't really tell why.

@1: wouldn't matter (i think), since they are all in the main namespace or a namespace with the same functions/rights and we are not planning on relying on namespaces for ... (basically anything).

@2: true, but that could be changed or we could add a : to our intern links

@3: I can't really think of any other, so it seems to me, like an artificial difference between pages and categories

The way I see it, a category can be a full page - without almost any restrictions (except namespaces and as a follow up: links), but a page can't be a category - because it can't. So why not use category for everything?

PS: One point that came to my mind now is, that you wouldn't be able to tell, wether a "page" has subpages or not, before visiting it.