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

[David Gerard]

On 31/08/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Generally the best option is to just remove the tag, but to conform to
> WP:BITE, if a clearly inexperienced user is trying to do their best by
> tagging all the articles in the world, we give them a nudge with that
> template. Of course, I've never seen anyone use it, its just there in
> case its ever needed.


Yeah. Newbies who start being procedural obsessives are difficult to
deal with in general. Put six tags on an article, obsessively check
all PRODs you've ever placed and AFD *any* that someone just removes,
etc., etc.

The interesting bits of life are the grey areas. Wikipedia is not a
refuge from them. How to get this across to those who see the world
entirely in black and white, and think of grey as a kind of defective
stippling?


- d.