[WikiEN-l] Template madness

Sat Feb 5 02:11:33 UTC 2005

These cleanup templates are all listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup

TD

-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org]
On Behalf Of Erik Moeller
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 6:32 PM
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Template madness

Take a look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kryon&oldid=9939921

How many different ways do we need to express that an article should be 
edited? When did Wikipedia become about editing pages to tell others how 
to edit pages?

I would support either radically cutting down the number of these 
templates, or limiting their use by policy to two total top-level boxes 
per page. Templates would be ordered by priority, so something 
ridiculous like "POV check" wouldn't have a chance if there are two 
important templates on the page already.

More controversially, I would even say that there's no point in an 
article being on Cleanup and VfD at the same time. Both are instruments 
of exposure, it's enough to use one of them and hope people fix the 
article because they see it there. Otherwise people will just keep 
adding Cleanup to any article on VfD out of fear that it will otherwise 
not get fixed before being deleted.

Regards,

Erik
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