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![]() | This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style and some of its sub-guidelines' talk pages see an unusual amount of discussion for many reasons: they serve as noticeboards, everyone has an opinion on style, MoS has broader scope and more detail than other guidelines, MoS is always being re-negotiated, and the talk pages attract user questions the Wikipedia-pertinence of which aren't always clear. |
The talk pages of Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:MOS or MoS) and its sub-guidelines see a comparatively high volume of discussion "churn" compared to talk pages of many other guidelines. This is especially true of the main Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (WT:MOS). Sometimes this discussion isn't all that clearly connected to style matters on Wikipedia in particular (though usually not provably off-topic, either).
There are many reasons for this, and various ideas like "send everyone to WP:Reference desk/Language (RDL) if they're not talking about, and only about, editing the MoS pages" aren't really viable.
Here are some fairly detailed observations, in extended bullet-point form: