[Wikipedia-l] Re: Metacomments

[Daniel Mayer]

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 06:59 am,  Khendon wrote:
> 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.
>
> I'm of the opinion that things like this should almost always
> be in the Talk page. Having them in the article looks tacky and
> unprofessional. Only things that directly affect "customers"
> should be in the article, I'd say.

I agree and have already stated my reasons why I think WikiProject tags in 
articles are a bad idea at;  
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._States

I've also taken the liberty of moving each state, province and department 
WikiProject tag to their respective talk pages. 

Now the only ones I know of that still exist in their articles are on about a 
thousand (at least) of the earlier US county articles imported by Ram-Man. 
However, Ram-Man already has this on his ToDo list if anybody would like to 
help. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ram-Man

Aside: Could somebody rerun the most active stats again? I'm sure Ram-Man has 
leap-froged a couple dozen other users since the numbers were last done. 

Hell, in a few months, he might even pass me up (esp. if he switches to 
creating articles on each US city after he is done creating articles on each 
US county -- madness). 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)