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One of the reasons I like the term Creole for what is trying to be achieved here is that the analogy with spoken language is a good one. When I first read the term Wiki Creole I immediately had a good idea of what was trying to be achieved. (And I also thought that the approach would have a reasonable chance of success.) A Creole is a language derived from a combinations of languages that allows communication between speakers of different tongues. A Creole is, by its nature, inclusive, so I argue that the shoe is on the other foot - you have to make a case to exclude something. Having said that, here's the case for inclusion:
# The convention that level 1 headings are page titles is a MediaWiki convention, it is not used by all wikis. (So the answer to the statement "I personally don't see why anyone would want to have level 1 headings if the title of a page is already level 1" is that page titles may not be level 1 headings for a particular wiki.)
# There are many wikis where level 1 headings are widely used. When users of these wikis adopt Creole they will find things that they used to be able to type no longer work.
# If someone wanted to migrate some wikitext from a wiki that used equals signs for headings (there are quite a few) but also used level one headings then they would either have the error prone task of adding an extra equals sign to all their headings, or they would have to write (or obtain a script).
# Creole should not set policy, it should leave that to the community that uses a particular wiki. The community may have good reason to form a convention that level 1 headings should be used.
-- [MartinBudden], 2006-12-06
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