On 12/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Earnie Boyd</b> <<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One of the things that has bugged the snot out of me is this story and<br>page module. Not seeing a difference I went looking for what it the<br>difference might be. Then I find a post by Steven Peck<br><a href="http://lists.drupal.org/archives/documentation/2006-08/msg00063.html">
http://lists.drupal.org/archives/documentation/2006-08/msg00063.html</a><br>that say basicly nothing. Certainly that is what appears to be. What<br>is worse is they are both turned on and both can be deleted from the<br>
content types. I think that now page should be on by default and not<br>allowed to be deleted; it becomes the require content type. I think<br>that story should be removed from core and maintained as a contributed<br>module as an example of how node modules can be created. I think doing
<br>these will help remove confusion from the beginning Dural experience.<br><br>Earnie<br></blockquote></div><br><br>The reason they exist is historical, and is just for flexibility.<br><br>Having two content types, even though identical in fields, provides more
<br>flexibility in workflow. For example, one can be moderated by default,<br>and have comments on by default, the other can be not so.<br><br>In 5.0, you can define your own type, or delete story if you don't like it.
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