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.