I've seen blocks happen over this sort of thing. I suggest kindly reminding
the user that adding such templates without a more complete explanation on
the talk page isn't helpful to fixing the problem. It's possible they didn't
see your edit summary, so their user talk will make that nice, orange box
for them. You can also jump-start the discussion, yourself -- a "please
explain" thread, I like to call them. Open-ended questions beg for answers.
Just my thoughts.
-Luna
On 12/13/06, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Timwi wrote:
I think the {{contradicting}} template is
problematic because it doesn't
require the user to specify what the supposed contradiction is. Some
people seem to add it as if it was an intrinsic property of the subject,
rather than a request to fix something. When I removed it with the
comment "Please don't add the contradiction tag without giving your
reasons on the Talk page, otherwise I won't know what to fix in the
article", it was simply added back in with the edit summary "who keeps
removing that template?".
Just add a parameter with an appropriately snarky default...
Stan
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