[wp-docs] Duplicated article lists...

[Jennifer Hodgdon]

I've been working this week on cleaning up and editing documentation 
for theme, plugin, and core WordPress developers (it's coming along). 
Also updating for version 2.1.

What I've come across is that there are quite a few Codex pages that 
are overlapping lists of articles. For instance, the following pages 
contain lists of resources related to Theme development, and have no 
actual content:

* http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates (fairly comprehensive)
* http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout (some sections)
* http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons (two sections are 
related to themes and templates)
* http://codex.wordpress.org/Developer_Documentation (one section on 
Themes)
* http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page (of course, the main page also 
duplicates several sections of the above)

I'm concerned because each of these lists has different articles, and 
there is not one sole source to look at for a comprehensive list. 
Also, some of the lists are not annotated, so you don't really know 
what you will find when you click on the link (it could just lead you 
to another page of links, or an article that is aimed at the wrong 
audience). Not to mention that many content-rich articles also have 
links to a few resources for further reading, where they could just 
point the user back to the comprehensive, organized, annotated list of 
resources.

So, can some of these be consolidated? For instance, maybe Blog Design 
and Layout could be the main place for design/layout articles, and 
Templates (instead of having any layout sections) could simply point 
to that page. Obviously, any articles linked to from the wordpress.org 
home page, or from the codex.wordpress.org sidebar, need to remain!

Thoughts? Is it OK if I go ahead and consolidate the developer-facing 
documentation in that way? (I'll stay away from the Main Page for now).

     --Jennifer