With apologies for some overlap between our topics, I also have been wrestling with this NAMESPACE question:
Since some of what I’ve been working on has a different emphasi-, I started another (but compatible) thread … mostly focused on the GUI I’ve developed for opening up fields as nodes where interesting things happen.
But YES, there are pros and cons to the “direct” approach of just making a tiddler called bibtex-title, and having that be the home for all the “meta” stuff about that field…