[Wikipedia-l] Metacomments

[Magnus Manske]

koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com wrote:

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>>I'd like to know exactly what the consensus is on "metacomments" within
>>an article text - "More should be written here", "See WikiProject Foo
>>for help with editing this page", "Is this correct?", and so on.
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>I don't like them, personally, and typically move them to talk pages.  As far as I'm concerned, *all* articles on wikipedia are works in progress, so I expect all of them to need expansion in one way or another.  I also think they're a bit jarring.  I guess I'm not postmodernist enough.  :-/
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IMHO we could avoid most of these metacomments with the vote function back.