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