Thread:Talk:SMWCon - Requirements for talks/Is this page necessary?

On the one hand, it's nice to have some sort of official explanation for how people should submit talks. On the other hand, a lot of the text here seems either obvious or not quite correct. I would think it's obvious that people can use whatever wiki markup they want, for example. And I think the focus on semantic wikis (as opposed to SMW) is strange. Yes, there have been talks about other semantic wiki software, like OntoWiki, but there have also been talks about (non-semantic) MediaWiki, and there have been talks that weren't really about wikis at all, like my talk from last time, "Data is data". Still, the vast majority of talks are going to be about SMW. Perhaps this should be a "here are some suggested topics", instead of a "here are some encouraged/required topics", list, and then it would be fine to explicitly mention SMW. Or perhaps having any such list on a page called "Requirements" sends the wrong message? Maybe part of the answer is to simply rename this page to something less intimidating, like "Proposing a talk".

(There's also one line that seems entirely questionable - that a talk should be described in "4 to 50 paragraphs". Should that be "sentences"? Even that seems a little high...)