User:Grover cleveland/Discussion draft

Repost for higher visibility: suggestion to allow pages to be devoted to certain high-interest quotations
According to to Policies and guidelines (bold added): ''Our goal with Wikiquote is to create a free compendium of quotations--indeed, the largest compendium of quotations in history, in both breadth and depth. We also want Wikiquote to become a reliable resource.''

In certain cases, the two goals of making Wikiquote reliable and making it have in-depth coverage are, I suggest, best served by having a page devoted to a certain quote. This gives us the following advantages:


 * It becomes possible to link directly to Wikiquote's discussion of a particular quote, rather than having to direct others to search for the the quote within a page consisting of a large number of quotes listed by source or theme.
 * It allows discussion of a quote to be situated in one place, rather than having to repeat the discussion within the list page for every author to whom the quote is (possibly incorrectly) attributed, in addition to any theme page to which the quote belongs
 * It allows detailed discussion of a quote to be formatted more naturally, and in a more aesthetically pleasing way, than trying to situate it awkwardly within multiply-indented lists.

FAQ

 * Are you suggesting that we should immediately try to rewrite Wikiquote so that every quote be given its own page?
 * No.  I'm not advocating that we should focus a huge amount of energy on rewriting existing articles in a one-page-per-quote format.  However, I do think that, where there is a large amount to say about a particular quote that can be backed up by reliable sources, that it should be permitted to have its own page.
 * Are you advocating getting rid of the existing list-format presentation of quotes organized by author, source, and/or theme?
 * Absolutely not. The existing list-format pages should continue; where they contain quotes that have their own articles, the list entry can consist of just the quote and a link to its page.  I've put an example here????.