[Wikipedia-l] "Drive-by tagging" advice needed

[ScottL]

Maury Markowitz wrote:
> I recently got into a minor squable that started with another example of 
> what I refer to as "drive-by tagging". Basically someone comes by an article 
> and inserts a whole bunch of tags without any comment. Some of these may be 
> valid, others less so, but very often its impossible to know one way or the 
> other without the original "tagger" pointing out the problems.
> 
> For instance, consider this example I came across recently: Mirror Fusion 
> Test Facility. The "tagger" inserted a needs cats and needs wikification. 
> The cats one was entirely valid and I added one, but I can't for the life of 
> me even imagine what needs additional wikification. It seems to follow the 
> style guide perfectly. I wrote to the tagger, but he responded saying "by 
> following the link within the tag for all you need to know about wikifying 
> an article", which is a non-answer.
> 
> I would like to hear any comments you all may have on this topic. Is it OK 
> to simply remove vague tags if the article in question does not appear to 
> have a problem related to the tag and there is no comment? I ask because, as 
> I noted, the last time I removed tags the tagger then stamped the article 
> with a PROD, their argument being that removing tags is PRODable.
> 
> Maury

   I think procedure for most of these is tag the article AND leave a 
note on the talk page.  This may not apply to {{wikify}} but then I 
don't there there is any "burden of prof" to removing {{wikify}}.  If 
you remove it then and they put it back then you have a legatimate 
content dispute which policy says shoudl be discussed.  Either way you 
get them on the talk page.

   As for PROD is that not {{PROD}} which simply if I am not mistaken 
says that ANYONE can remove it with only the reason that they disagree? 
  The template itself says "If this template is removed, it should not 
be replaced."

SKL