Thread:User talk:Blue/reviews/reply (5)

I am only applying this criterion to reviews, because that is what you asked about. I am not trying to define the entirety of essayspace. There is an arbitrary distinction between reviews, mainspace articles and essays which we need to sort out, and there isn't a magic way to avoid this problem.

The easiest solution would be this: Keep the "reviews" category intact, and let pages' authors be the judge of whether or not their work goes into mainspace (where it can be edited mercilessly) or essayspace (where it can't). If the author of a review voluntarily places it into mainspace, in mainspace it should remain. Anything we find disagreeable can be edited according to the principles of a wiki. But if, as Thanatos did, the author purposefully places their review in essayspace, it should stay there (within reason).

There is no good reason why the reviews category can't span both mainspace and essayspace pages. In the absence of a review namespace it's the best we can do.