Template talk:PD Help Page

Help Contents link
The Help Contents link at the top of Template:PD Help Page is a navigational aid to help people who arrive at a specific "Help:" page find their way top level Help - Help Contents. Some people looking for help will be new to the site and not know their way around it yet and will need such navigational aid, especially in the Help namespace because the Help namespace currently has the confusing label "Help" configured as the article tab label. Newcomers see that "Help" tab label and think it goes to top level site Help but it does not. It goes to just the specific Help page they happen to be at already (or to be under if they are in its Talk, History, or Edit area). --Rogerhc 11:34, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * This is a kludge and I am not happy with it. Maybe <- to Help Top would be better. Best would be to not have this navigational confusion built into the "Help:" namespace's article tab label in the firstplace. Ideas? --Rogerhc 11:46, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Eh, people who arrived at mediawiki.org and then already went to any specific help page, presumably do know about the edit button and the others ... they know that clicking "history" doesn't bring them to a text about the history of whatever, that clicking "article" doesn't bring them to the one and only article (whatever that could be), and also that clicking "help" doesn't bring them to the one and only help.

This template has one major aim, that is to inform about the license status of all pages in the help namespace. You can't explain on every page how this site is structured and how it may work globally. It doesn't make sense to reiterate many parallel links to support desk/forum/manual on every page (people won't read it if it's too long and has too many links). So please don't fill up such templates, that are displayed very prominently at the top of nearly all pages of a specific namespace, with needless information. Thanks -- :Bdk: 12:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)