Well, is there a disadvantage to namespacing? Patterns like X Salvage and X Badge are effectively a poor man's namespace as it is - is there any benefit to not formalizing it?
There are only two mild disadvantages:
1. For searching, you'd have to search for "Salvage:X" instead of "X Salvage" to jump to the article directly, which is less intuitive. However, we already redirect from "X" to "X Salvage" anyway. I'd be fine with putting in redirects from "X" to "Salvage:X". (Though that does beg the question, for recipes and enhancements: Do we want "X" to be a disambiguation to "Recipe:X" and "Enhancement:X"?)
Aside: searching will still hit these namespaces (since I'll configure it to do so). I'm only talking about the behavior where you type an exact article name in and hit go above. Even without the redirects, such a search will still show the page you're looking at the top of the results.
Aside benefit: you can configure the search to exclude namespaces or focus on specific namespaces, so it may actually improve advanced searching abilities. There is no way to accomplish that outside of using namespaces.
2. For linking, it's fine to use [[X Salvage]], but it'd be awkward to use [[Salvage:X]]. However, this is actually an improvement. [[Salvage:X|]] automatically turns into [[Salvage:X|Salvage]] when you save it due to special piping magic. (Similarly, [[X (Salvage)|]] also would turn into [[X (Salvage)|X]].) So really, we'd be gaining a
benefit in this area even if it doesn't look that way at first.
(That and I'm not sure how much time I'll personally be able to commit to helping reorganize right now, so I'm leaving to the people that I think are probably going to be leading the charge to make the changes.)
I'd prefer feedback from people even if they haven't the slightest intent in contributing to making the changes happen. If you use Paragon Wiki? Your opinion counts. So please, if you do end up having feedback, give it.
* The recipe and enhancement pages do not, however, link one another. Is this due to oversight or intent?
They do, but the links aren't obvious. Look at the words "enhancement" and "recipe".