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Wikiproject Contents

That's a fairly inaccurate explanation of Wikiproject Contents, due to some page moves/merges in 2006 which confused everything. The talkpages (eg) were originally from WP:Reference pages (c.2005), which was what eventually got moved to Portal:Contents. 2005/2006 were the years of many redesigns, starting at the Main Page. WikiProject Contents was simply a set of pages to comprehensively list and organize what already existed - it started in late 2007. (If the author had asked for comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Contents, we could've helped correct some of these misunderstandings before publication... –Quiddity (talk) 01:28, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry that we mistakenly traced the project to an older set of WP:Reference pages. Looking at the project's talk page, there was no indication that the earliest discussions had been transplanted from elsewhere or that further discussions were hidden away. Since the project has had no activity in months and is tagged as inactive, we didn't expect anyone to answer requests for more information. –Mabeenot (talk) 02:14, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I was a bit harsh; I know how much effort goes into these articles, and they're driven just by good curiosity and attempts at lesson sharing. But on the other hand, I'd commented at that talkpage in Sep 2013! :P –Quiddity (talk) 05:18, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]