[Wikipedia-l] Metacomments

[Toby Bartels]

>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.

IMO:
Some metacomments ("More needs to be written on this aspect.")
have a place, and can be very useful to readers as well as writers.
Others ("This is based on material from an unnamed 1911 encyclopedia.")
can safely be relegated to [[Talk:]], if that.


-- Toby