[WikiEN-l] Re: Template madness

Sat Feb 5 19:10:09 UTC 2005

Bill Konrad wrote:

> BTW, I agree that this proliferation of tags on the article page is 
> not particularly helpful for readers.

Agreed, and I think this expresses very well the principle that should 
guide whether a given tag goes on the article itself or the talk page. 
If a tag is necessary or helpful for the reader, it should be placed on 
the article, but the number of such tags should be limited. A protection 
notice or dispute tag would qualify. VfD notices too, since they imply 
that the article may not belong at all. Virtually all of the rest are 
either primarily meta-information (which belongs on the talk page the 
way featured article tags are already done) or else they are poor 
attempts at categorization (which should be handled through, shockingly 
enough, categories).

--Michael Snow